This film reminds me of his grandfather. He’s a Jewish guy who wears gold chains and wishes he was born Italian so he could either be in THE GODFATHER or a Scorsese flick. I know a lot of people think this film is superficial or rips off stuff we saw in GOODFELLAS, but I just love it. I think the part that really draws me in, is the relationship between De Niro and Sharon Stone. It’s what I call junkfood love. He loves her so much, but because of that he has a hard time walking away and is more lenient of her destructive parts than he should be. The true tragedy is that she doesn’t really love him even though they have a child together. Eventually it is Rothstien’s love of that child that supersedes his love of Stone’s character. There’s a lot of great performances here from not only De Niro and Stone, but from Joe Pesci and Frank Vincent. It also has that trademark Scorsese soundtrack to boot.
