''The Narrows'' is an American 2008 independent film starring

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and

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Plot

The movie is based on Tim McLoughlin's novel ''Heart of the Old Country'', which has Mike Manadoro (

) as a 19-year-old

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boy who is torn between two worlds. When Mike's photography portfolio wins him a partial scholarship to

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, he must figure out how to balance his tight-knit Italian neighborhood roots in

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with the opportunity to blend into the expansive, sophisticated world on the other side of the East River. Since his job at a local car service doesn't earn him enough to make up for the rest of the tuition, and his father, a retired sanitation worker on disability, refuses out of pride to support Mike's attempts for financial aid, Mike ultimately takes a job making deliveries for Tony, the local mob boss, to make up the difference. Mike not only has to balance work with his academic assignments, he has to manage his personal relationships as well. This includes his attraction to a beautiful, cool, intellectual young woman, Kathy Popovich (

) he meets at NYU, with his responsibility to his longtime girlfriend Gina (

) from the neighborhood whom he's promised to marry. The stakes grow higher as he faces consequential choices from turning his back on all he knows and pursuing a new life.

Cast

as Mike Manadoro *

as Vinny Manadoro *

as Kathy Popovich *

as Nicky Shades *

as Gina *

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as Professor Reyerson * Michael Kelly as Danny *

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as Tony

Production

''The Narrows'' was filmed in

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between April 24 and May 30, 2007. Filming took place in several locations of the city including Astoria in

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and

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in Brooklyn.

was reported to have been flying back and forth from her home state of

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to the filming destination in New York City. ''The Narrows'' premiered at the

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in September 2008."Release dates for ''The Narrows''"

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. Retrieved November 3, 2010. On March 4, 2009, it was announced that ''The Narrows'' was picked up for distribution by the new partnership of Olympus Pictures Distribution LLC (a unit of Olympus Pictures) and Cinedigm's Content and Entertainment subsidiary. It was released in over 15 major markets in the US in June 2009. The DVD came out in the fall of 2009.

Awards

received the Special Grand Jury Prize for Acting for his role at the 2009

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."2009 Nashville Film Festival Wraps with ''Make-Out with Violence'' and ''Shakespeare and Victor Hugo's Intimacies'' Taking Top Prizes"
(April 24, 2009).

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. Retrieved March 27, 2011.

References

External links

*
''The Narrows''
on

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