two family house


does anyone know if this movie is autobiographical??? i live on staten island and the movie seems very real. there was no biography on the writer/director so i have nothing to check it against.

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Yes, the first part of the story is based on Raymond's Uncle Buddy, who had a tenant give birth to a half-black baby. However, the end is more of a "fairy tale" - in life, Buddy had three somewhat unhappy marriages and did not leave his wife Estelle for the baby's mother. He never knew what happened to them. Raymond heard the story as a kid, and gave it a happier ending when writing the movie.

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The actress who played Estelle really did look like the real Estelle.
I read an interview by Raymond DeFelitta and he said after he cast Narducci he saw a picture of the real Estelle and he couldn't get over that they looked so much alike.

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I used to live on the same block (Waterbury Avenue in the Bronx) as Kathy Narducci. She used to tell me that she was going to be in a movie with Robert DeNiro, but I never believed her... By the time "A Bronx Tale" was released in the Fall of 1993, she had moved away.

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