CAST AND CREW

DIRECTOR
James Foley

WRITING CREDITS
Joseph Stefano

CAST
Jerry Barone Gennaro
Mary E. Mastrantonio Luisa Spirito
Al Pacino Gitano Sabatoni
Patrick Borriello Tullio
Andy Romano Dr. Bruna

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In this Depression-era drama a 12-year-old Philadelphia boy, desperate for twenty-five cents to go to the opening of a new movie theatre, has the two bits willed to him by his grandfather, who announces he's going to die. Not wanting to lose his grandpa, the boy spends the day trying to earn the money and learning important life lessons. Alec Baldwin narrates.

Pacino says the script appealed to him because his own grandfather was one of the most influential people in his life. "My grandfather, who raised me, and was the most, and um my Grandad died before anything happened to me, any kind of success or whatever happened to me in my career, so I felt a kind of a warmth toward that character."

It is also known as "A Day to Remember"