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Released when roberts was making films like star 80 and runaway train. Acutely realistic yet wondrously funny, the pope of greenwich village captures the speech, the scams, the flavor, the dread, and the humor of ordinary people scrambling to make it big in a neighborhood that prides itself on creating and enforcing its own laws. Based on vincent patricks classic novel, patrick also wrote the screenplay. Vincent patrick is the author of the pope of greenwich village 3. After the publication of this, his first novel, he wrote screenplays for many years, including the script for the movie, the pope of greenwich village with micky rouark and eric roberts and for the movie of his second novel, family business sean connery, dustin hoffman and mathew broderick, directed by. Roteiro vincent patrick elenco mickey rourke eric roberts daryl hannah geraldine page kenneth mcmillan burt young. The pope of greenwich village cast and crew cast photos.
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