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    MPAA Rating: PG13 | Year: 2007 | Running Time: 96 minutes


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    Actor Robert Davi steps behind the camera to direct himself, Chazz Palminteri, and Peter Bogdanovich in The Dukes. The title comes from the name of a doo-wop act that at one time had the most popular song in the country. Decades later, the group desperate for cash, the musicians decide to work ...more

    Dreams often dictate the waking life of many human beings. The middle-aged men that populate The Dukes are no different. The lead characters, played by Robert Davi, who also steps behind the camera to direct the film, and Chazz Palminteri, are living in the past, when they were a part of a wildly popular doo wop singing group that had but one smash hit single. Clinging to the past certainly stunts the mens' growth and makes for quite a few laughs in the film. You have to hand it ...more

    Actor-turned-filmmaker Robert Davi has made a beguilingly delightful and enjoyable debut in the director's chair with The Dukes. It's a wonderfully strange (by Hollywood standards) hybrid of a movie, part heist thriller and all drama, with lots and lots of comedy woven through it, along with a ton of music. Davi -- who originated the idea for the film and co-wrote the script -- draws these seemingly disparate elements together into a coherent whole that manages to recall such varied films as ...more



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