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Starring: Michael Gandolfini, Alessandro Nivola, Leslie Odom Jr., Jon Bernthal, Corey Stoll, Ray Liotta, Vera Farmiga

OUR RATING: ★★☆☆☆

Story:

Crime drama directed by Alan Taylor. Prequel to HBO series The Sopranos, The Many Saints of Newark follows a young Anthony Soprano (Michael Gandolfini), who is growing up in one of the most tumultuous eras in Newark’s history, becoming a man just as rival gangsters begin to rise up and challenge the all-powerful DiMeo crime family’s hold over the increasingly race-torn city. Caught up in the changing times is the uncle he idolizes, Dickie Moltisanti (Alessandro Nivola), who struggles to manage both his professional and personal responsibilities, and whose influence over his nephew will help make the impressionable teenager into the all-powerful mob boss we’ll later come to know, Tony Soprano.

 

Our Favorite Quote:

'It's the wanting. All life is pain. Pain comes from always wanting things.' - Sal 'Sally' Moltisanti (The Many Saints of Newark) Click To Tweet

 

Best Quotes


 

Christopher Moltisanti: Moltisanti is a religious name. And still I’m f***ed. I met death on Route 23, not too far from here. But that was much later.


 

Christopher Moltisanti: The little fat kid is my uncle, Tony. Soprano. Well, we call him my uncle, by marriage. He choked me to death.


 

Dickie Moltisanti: [to Hollywood Dick] Most guys sixty-five go to Europe on vacation, they come back with the gout. You come back with the winner, Miss Provolone, 1967.


 

Christopher Moltisanti: After he murdered me, Tony gave my wife and baby his pocket change. But that was much later.


 

Leon Overall: Who the f*** are you?
Dickie Moltisanti: The guy who one time put out somebody’s eye for talking to him like that.


 

Priest: I didn’t catch the name.
Pussy Bonpensiero: Pussy.
‘Hollywood Dick’ Moltisanti: Don’t worry, Father, it’s not what you think it is.


 

Harold McBrayer: Goddamn Gentleman Dickie Moltisanti. Always comes to me to handle his nasty work.


 

Harold McBrayer: The army won’t take me now. I always wanted to join up, but I had two felony convictions.
Queen Isola: Take you?
Harold McBrayer: Happened to stop by a recruiting office today, and it made me remember.
Queen Isola: Brothers doing all the dying over there. We don’t need no more.
Harold McBrayer: Well, somebody’s going to to win the Medal of Honor.
Queen Isola: Not a Black man. Please.


 

Gil Scott-Heron: Standing in the ruins Of another Black man’s life. Or flying through the valley Separating day and night, “I am death,” cried the vulture, “For the people of the night.” In a wilderness of heartbreak and a desert of despair. Evil’s clarion of justice Shrieks a cry of naked terror, taking babies from their mommas, leaving grief beyond compare. So if you see the vulture coming Flying circles in your mind, remember, there is no escaping, for he will follow close behind. Only promise me a battle, battle for your soul and mine. And mine.


 

Dickie Moltisanti: [referring to Giuseppina] How high did she bounce?
‘Hollywood Dick’ Moltisanti: What are you talking about?
Dickie Moltisanti: When you threw her down the stairs.
‘Hollywood Dick’ Moltisanti: Got two left feet.
Dickie Moltisanti: Because you used to throw my mother down the stairs. I didn’t like it then, I don’t like it now.


 

Dickie Moltisanti: [referring to Giuseppina] I promise you, you hurt her again, you’re going down the stairs.
‘Hollywood Dick’ Moltisanti: Who the f*** do you think you’re f***ing talking to?
Dickie Moltisanti: You got away with it once with mom! But I was a little kid. You’re not getting away with it again!
[after which he kills Dick]


 

Livia Soprano: [to young Tony at Hollywood Dick’s funeral] They called him Hollywood Dick. Imagine what he looks like now.


 

Junior Soprano: When my brother’s away, everything goes through me.
Buddha: You got diarrhea?
Junior Soprano: Comedian.


 

Junior Soprano: [as Hollywood Dick’s funeral] What a blow.
Dickie Moltisanti: Yeah, well, at least you still got your brother. Yeah. I got nobody.
Junior Soprano: Dickie, consider me your brother from now on, huh?


 

Dickie Moltisanti: Well, you being out here isolated, out of contact with the family, my old man said you deserved it. But I want to do whatever I can to help you from now. It wasn’t right how they treated you.
Sal ‘Sally’ Moltisanti: I was twenty-five. I murdered a made guy in our own family. I’m here for a good reason. You don’t need to help me.


 

Sal ‘Sally’ Moltisanti: What do you want, Richard?
Dickie Moltisanti: I’ll be honest with you. I want to do a good deed.
Sal ‘Sally’ Moltisanti: A what?
Dickie Moltisanti: A good deed.


 

Livia Soprano: [referring to Tony] You got to talk to him.
Dickie Moltisanti: Johnny should do it.
Livia Soprano: You’re the only one he listens to.
Dickie Moltisanti: Johnny should do it. You’re going to see him visiting day.
Livia Soprano: Johnny’s just going to want to hit him, and he can’t because of the glass partition, and he’s just going to get frustrated.


 

Junior Soprano: I got some Lady Schick blow dryers. Livia, take one for yourself. One for Janice.
Livia Soprano: I got bigger problems than blow dryers. Anthony got kicked out of school.
Junior Soprano: Let me go talk to him. I promised Johnny I’d take care of Tony while he was in jail.
Livia Soprano: The way you talk, you just confuse him. He only listens to Dickie.


 

Dickie Moltisanti: Can’t you read a regular comic? You know, Superman, Jughead.
Young Tony Soprano: It’s about some Jewish girl and a knight. And Robin Hood’s in it.
Dickie Moltisanti: I didn’t know they had Jews back in the Middle Ages.
Young Tony Soprano: Well, the Bible.


 

Dickie Moltisanti: You know I don’t like to lean on you about stuff. But you can’t start a gambling operation at school.
Young Tony Soprano: I know that, now.
Dickie Moltisanti: Hey, don’t bulls**t me. You always knew it.


 

Dickie Moltisanti: You got to have a better attitude. With your father gone, your mother’s got a lot on her plate. You got to be good. I don’t want to go through this again.
Young Tony Soprano: I try to be good.
Dickie Moltisanti: I don’t think so. Try harder. Pinky swear?
Young Tony Soprano: Jesus.
Dickie Moltisanti: Hey, you don’t talk to me like that. See, you’re not listening.
Young Tony Soprano: Fine. Pinky swear.


 

Silvio Dante: Where’s Candy tonight?
Junior Soprano: Migraine.
Dickie Moltisanti: Again with the migraine.
Paulie Walnuts: Keep a close eye on that one. She keeps disappearing, she’s probably f***ing some Tom, Dick, and Harry. Found a new gravy train.


 

Junior Soprano: I wonder what the origin of the sobriquet “gravy train” is.
Paulie Walnuts: They named it after the dog food.
Dickie Moltisanti: I don’t know about you, Junior. Guy tells you your girlfriend’s banging somebody else, you’re worried about the origin of “gravy train”?


 

Dickie Moltisanti: I’m going to give you five C’s. Yeah? It’s my gift to you. You don’t got to give it back.
Harold McBrayer: No, I want to pay you back.
Dickie Moltisanti: It’s better this way. You don’t got to be afraid to say hello to me, I don’t got to chase you down. Won’t come between us.
Harold McBrayer: So I guess this is goodbye.
Dickie Moltisanti: Yeah, you said your goodbye, so go.


 

Sal ‘Sally’ Moltisanti: So, you did your good deed.
Dickie Moltisanti: Well, don’t put it like that. I plan to do a lot more.


 

Sal ‘Sally’ Moltisanti: It’s the wanting.
Dickie Moltisanti: Huh?
Sal ‘Sally’ Moltisanti: The Buddhist will tell you, “All life is pain.” Pain comes from always wanting things.
Dickie Moltisanti: A son is not a thing.
Sal ‘Sally’ Moltisanti: It’s the wanting.


 

Young Tony Soprano: I want to make it to the NFL someday. For that, I got to go to college. So I got to watch my f***ing a**.


 

Young Artie Bucco: My old man told me I got to run his f***ing restaurant when I grow up. What does your old man say?
Young Tony Soprano: He says I got to f***ing rob your old man’s restaurant.


 

Young Artie Bucco: Do you know who I’d want to be? Your Uncle Dickie. How he f***ing dresses.
Young Tony Soprano: He said he’d give me five hundred dollars if I graduate from f***ing high school.

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Christopher Moltisanti: The ’60s ended. Neil Young gave that speech from the moon. Then came the RICO statutes around when I was born. I wish I had come before that.


 

Dickie Moltisanti: Hey, Anthony, you go see Dirty Harry like I told you?
Teenage Tony Soprano: “You got to ask yourself, do you feel lucky?”
Dickie Moltisanti: “Well, do you, punk?”


 

Johnny Soprano: How did you let this happen?
Junior Soprano: Oh, what do you want from me, Johnny? I had plenty on my shoulders taking care of things while you were in the joint. Raising Anthony. The disaster with the Electricians Union. Your wife with the cramps.
Johnny Soprano: Boo-hoo-hoo! Look at Dickie Moltisanti. His father gets whacked, he steps up. Takes care of his family, takes care of all the business. Not a peep out of him. He’s younger than you.


 

Johnny Soprano: How about you, chooch? You going to be a linebacker, huh?
Teenage Tony Soprano: Coach says I’m going to be starting.
Junior Soprano: He don’t have the makings of a varsity athlete.
Livia Soprano: It was up to me, you wouldn’t be playing at all. But you went ahead and you forged my signature.


 

Dickie Moltisanti: Finally, huh? Corrado, right? Got myself a son.
Junior Soprano: I hear he’s slow with the talking.


 

Teenage Tony Soprano: Hi, Christopher. Hello! Oh! What’s the matter? Don’t cry. It’s only me, your Uncle Tony. What’s wrong. Cootchie-coo!
Joanne Moltisanti: Okay. Alright. Alright. You know, every time you’re near him he cries like this.
Teenage Tony Soprano: I didn’t do anything.


 

Teenage Tony Soprano: [referring to baby Christopher] I don’t know what it is. It’s like I scare him or something.
Old Auntie: Some babies, when they come into the world, know all kinds of things from the other side.


 

Giuseppina Moltisanti: Over there, you get old so fast. Ten children, and a big, black dress. You know, over there, I wanted to be a priest.
Angie DeCarlo: You mean nun.
Giuseppina Moltisanti: No, no. Priest. Nuns have to do what they told. The priest is the boss. Capo.


 

Dickie Moltisanti: What’s so funny?
Giuseppina Moltisanti: Nuns.
Dickie Moltisanti: Yeah. They weren’t so funny when they were hitting me with a ruler.


 

Teenage Artie Bucco: [as they’re stealing the ice cream truck] We’re going to get in so much f***ing trouble! My father’s going to use the belt on me!
Ice Cream Truck Driver: You little s**t!
Teenage Tony Soprano: If anybody tells anybody about this, next time we use the belt.


 

Dickie Moltisanti: [referring to Tony] So maybe he’s not a ball player, but Li, you don’t want to step on the kid’s dream.
Livia Soprano: You always take his side.
Dickie Moltisanti: Look, you give him the best advice you can. You lead by example. He’ll make the right decision. This kid’s got what it takes.


 

Dickie Moltisanti: We all do things like that when we’re kids, right? Beat up the Mister Softee man.
Johnny Soprano: If my Christopher grew up to be like Tony, I’d be goddamn proud of him.


 

Giuseppina Moltisanti: I though it will be different.
Harold McBrayer: What?
Giuseppina Moltisanti: Make love with a Black man.
Harold McBrayer: Is it?
Giuseppina Moltisanti: No.
Harold McBrayer: It’s all about Italian men, huh? There’s stories about Dean Martin and Rossano Brazzi, how they’re great lovers.
Giuseppina Moltisanti: If you feed them.
Harold McBrayer: Oh! You got to give Dickie his meatballs and his noodles.


 

Julius: See, the law of averages say you got the same chance of hitting as any two random people.
Candy Store Nurse: Yeah, but two people at the same time don’t have the same chance of winning. That’s the law of averages.
Julius: That’s a fallacy, Ms. Johnson. It’s all random.
Candy Store Nurse: You don’t understand fate.


 

Sal ‘Sally’ Moltisanti: How are you doing on your merit badges?
Dickie Moltisanti: I’m coaching a beep baseball team.
Sal ‘Sally’ Moltisanti: A who?
Dickie Moltisanti: It’s baseball. For blind kids.
Sal ‘Sally’ Moltisanti: Get the f*** out of here.
Dickie Moltisanti: No, for real.


 

Mrs. Jarecki: You know stealing the tests was wrong.
Teenage Tony Soprano: Yeah, I guess so. But if you’re going to kick me out of school, I mean, you should just do it, instead of us talking about it.
Mrs. Jarecki: You talk a lot at home?
Teenage Tony Soprano: I don’t know.


 

Mrs. Jarecki: [referring to Tony] On the basis of the Stanford-Binet, he’s high IQ. But you know that.
Livia Soprano: You can’t prove it by me. He’s got a D-plus average.
Mrs. Jarecki: Well, that’s because he doesn’t apply himself, but he is smart.
Livia Soprano: There’s a big difference between a smart person and a smart aleck.
Mrs. Jarecki: I also administered the Briggs-Myer personality inventory just now, and the results tell us, he’s a leader. “Enthusiastic. Insightful. Playful.”
Livia Soprano: You’re talking through your hat.


 

Livia Soprano: I went to all that trouble just so we could have a nice conversation for once, and for what? How am I supposed to enjoy a Broadway show with my children and their pot?
Teenage Tony Soprano: Ma, I don’t smoke pot!
Livia Soprano: Well, your sister comes in here smelling like a gypsy.
Teenage Tony Soprano: Well, I’m not my sister. I’m always being accused!
Livia Soprano: Oh! Poor you!


 

Teenage Tony Soprano: I wonder what they talk about in there?


 

Teenage Tony Soprano: [referring to getting medicine for Livia] I know you can get anything.
Dickie Moltisanti: Don’t be a wise-a**.
Teenage Tony Soprano: I’m not. I’m just saying it could make her happy. Even Janice says.
Dickie Moltisanti: Janice. There’s somebody we all want to take advice from.


 

Teenage Tony Soprano: [after Dickie gives him speakers] I want to go to college. I can’t get caught with s**t like this.
Dickie Moltisanti: Okay, my friend Hesh, says only goys and children pay retail.
Teenage Tony Soprano: This isn’t wholesale. It’s totally on the arm.
Dickie Moltisanti: Look, you want to be a civilian, I appreciate that. I’m all for it. But pay attention to me for once, okay? You take the speakers, right? At the same time, you promise yourself these speakers are it. Now, you say to yourself, “This is the last time I’m ever going to steal something.” And you stick to it. It’s that simple.


 

Junior Soprano: F***ing Dickie Moltisanti! It’s more than a month now!
Iris Balducci: For God’s sake, Corrado. He didn’t push you down the stairs, you slipped.
Junior Soprano: He got a good laugh out of it though.
Iris Balducci: Any excuse not to f***.


 

Harold McBrayer: This week I got to do something about this guinea m**herf***er, or he’ll do me.
Frank Lucas: Ah, DiMeo?
Harold McBrayer: No, Dickie Moltisanti. Controls the numbers, whole rest of Newark.


 

Giuseppina Moltisanti: I’m alone so much. I get lonely. Maybe you didn’t love me anymore.
Dickie Moltisanti: Hey, if I don’t love you anymore, you won’t mistake it for a maybe.


 

Dickie Moltisanti: [after he’s killed Giuseppina for sleeping with Harold] She died.
Sal ‘Sally’ Moltisanti: So young. What happened?
Dickie Moltisanti: Pneumonia.
Sal ‘Sally’ Moltisanti: Pneumonia?
Dickie Moltisanti: She had weak lungs, from growing up on the other side. F***ed up doctors.
Sal ‘Sally’ Moltisanti: So much tragedy in your life. Your father. Your mistress.


 

Dickie Moltisanti: You know, I try so hard.
Sal ‘Sally’ Moltisanti: What kind of God, huh?
Dickie Moltisanti: I go to church when Joanne wants. I try to set an example for my nephew. I come see you. I do all kinds of good things.


 

Sal ‘Sally’ Moltisanti: Maybe some of the things you choose to do aren’t God’s favorite.
Dickie Moltisanti: What are you trying to say?
Sal ‘Sally’ Moltisanti: What do I know? I’m a murderer.


 

Sal ‘Sally’ Moltisanti: As far as your nephew goes, may I make a brief suggestion for a nice Christmas present you could give him?
Dickie Moltisanti: I’m listening.
Sal ‘Sally’ Moltisanti: Stay out of his life.


 

Teenage Tony Soprano: [throws the speakers Dickie gave him out the window] I don’t want these!
Johnny Soprano: Oh! That was a gift!
Teenage Tony Soprano: You take them! I don’t want any part of this! None of it! I don’t want any part of this!


 

Silvio Dante: Dick. The kid. I don’t know what happened with you two. But he worships you. He’s got so much potential. Anthony, with that loony tune of a mother. Johnny, who’s in line for a personality transplant.
Dickie Moltisanti: What, I’m some kind of example?
Silvio Dante: What can I tell you? You’re his best shot.


 

Junior Soprano: [over phone, after Dickie’s been shot and killed] Yeah?
Man: It’s done.


 

Teenage Janice Soprano: [to Tony at Dickie’s funeral] God, he was my favorite uncle.
Remember when he used to take us to the movies? Ones mom wouldn’t let us go to.


 

Christopher Moltisanti: That’s the guy. My uncle Tony. The guy I went to hell for.

 


 

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