The Boys of 2nd Street Park (2003) (TV)

User Rating:

7.3/10   

Directors:

Ron Berger
Dan Klores

Genre:

Documentary

Plot:

Five men recall their childhoods in the 1960s. |

Plot Keywords:

Number In Title

Cast

Bernie Bandman	...	Himself
Frankie Bass	...	Himself
Larry Brown	...	Himself
Bobby Feld	...	Himself
Brian Newmark	...	Himself
Madelyne Ryterband	...	Herself
Steve Satin	...	Himself

MPAA:

Rated R for drug content and some language.

Runtime:

91 min

Country:

USA

Color:

Color

Certification:

USA:R

Soundtrack:

Under the Boardwalk

Touching Documentary focusing on the lives of men who grew up in a predominantly Jewish, working class area of Brooklyn

This film beautifully touches on the lives of boys growing up in Brooklyn, the ways their lives continue to intertwine through their twenties, and the different turns their lives have taken. By the end of the film, you feel like you know the characters personally. The film progresses from high school kids playing their playoff basketball game in scary Boys' H.S., to the different stances the young men took on Vietnam, to continued drug use, to marriage and family. Boys of 2nd Street Park takes viewers back to a time when boys had real nicknames("Cuda" and "Bass"), and the neighborhood park was a place to bond and imagine. A wonderful yet tragic film with a beautiful culmination.