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List Price: $9.95 | | Label: Sony Pictures
Salesrank: 12051
Released: April 25, 2000 |
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MPAA Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
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Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: PG
Release Date: 7-DEC-2004
Media Type: DVD
Description of The Lords of Flatbush:
When The Lords of Flatbush was released in 1974, Sylvester Stallone was still an unknown actor polishing his screenplay for Rocky, and Henry Winkler was approaching TV superstardom as "Fonzie" in the first season of Happy Days. In this modest, low-budget feature, they play second and third fiddle (respectively) to Perry King, whose respectable career, ironically, would never reach such stratospheric heights. As for their costar and diminutive fourth "Lord of Flatbush," Paul Mace appeared in only one more movie after this (Stallone's Paradise Alley), and was killed in a 1983 traffic accident at the age of 33. Such is the random nature of fame and fate.
The movie itself is noteworthy mostly for the pre-stardom appearances of Stallone and Winkler, and a strong costarring role for that most ubiquitous of '70s actresses, Susan Blakely. Despite its amateurish style, muddy sound quality, and rambling scenes that have casual appeal but minimal narrative momentum, the movie is blessed with laid-back authenticity, recognizing the value of awkward pauses and jumpy rhythms of conversation. The ensemble of self-named Lords--four leather-clad rebels in 1957 Brooklyn, moving reluctantly toward adulthood--is solidly cast, and even the most familiar scenes (like making out at a drive-in showing From Here to Eternity) ring with engaging truth. Codirector Martin Davidson later covered similar territory in Eddie and the Cruisers, and Barry Levinson transcended this shoestring affair with his 1980 classic Diner, but The Lords of Flatbush stands on its own as an earnest and lightly entertaining drama that boosted its costars to bigger and better things. --Jeff Shannon
The Lords of Flatbush Reviews:
A Cult Film composed of sub-plots 
2009-10-17 - First of all, Stallone and Winkler both give solid performances as street hoodlums on the verge of manhood. Perry King and Paul Mace are good as well, making this cast quite first-rate.
This film is entertaining as long as one doesn't expect anything that remotely resembles a plot. An amagamation of subplots serves to fill the void, and the film somehow works. It's exactly as billed in the trailer, sung as a doo-wop tune: "The Lords of Flatbush is a movie / About what life was like back in the fifties".
Well, that lyric says it all.
This film will not cure any ailments, but if you want to know what started the careers of Stallone and Winkler, look no further. It's entertaining, quite well acted, and insightful regarding the lives and outlooks of kids coming of age in the late 1950's.
lords of a great movie 
2009-09-23 - i love this movie ! it's so funny ! i like the whole greaser thig !
Disappointing Quality
2009-09-05 - I saw this movie when I was a teenager and remember it being an entertaining movie. It featured some well know actors such as Sylvestor Stallone and Henry Winkler, whom were unknown at this early juncture in their careers. I decided to buy it since it is a film worth owning. I enjoyed the movie and its stereotypical characters and the fact that it took place in Brooklyn, New York where I grew up, however the quality of the DVD was not good at all. The picture was not well focused and the sound quality was pretty bad. In spite of all this It was not expensive so I will make it a keeper.
Great B-Movie - "Happy Days" It Ain't 
2008-12-22 - You can't help but see Fonzie when you see Henry Winkler in this film...but Happy Days it ain't.
Don't get me wrong, it is a great little b-movie (even the soundtrack is low budget with original 1970s songs trying to sound 1950s). But this film is not the innocent 1950s that Happy Days portrays. It is a straight, in-your-face look at the juvenile delinquent life--a day in the life of four guys in a gang called The Lords.
These guys get together with girls, fight, disrupt the classroom, and ultimately realize that they eventually have to grow up (or at least Sylvester Stallone's character Stanley does).
If you want a good juvenile delinquent film with familiar faces and cool nostalgia, then go to Flatbush with The Lords!
Lords of Flatbush
2008-11-24 - Great movie, takes me back to a time when you could lube your car's engine by rubbing your greasy head up against it.
