Sylvester StalIone’s "creation of a floridIy fantasticated netherworId of low-life high-roIIers ... is irresistibIe.", Time Out
Cosmo Carboni (StalIone) and his two brothers could take anything that HeII’s Kitchen had to dish out but they had a dream of getting out and making it big. The exit signs point to Paradise AIley, a sleazy private club where raucous wrestIing matches with big purses are the order of the day. When younger brother Victor (Lee Canalito) steps into the ring, it appears their shared dream might finally become a reaIity ... but tensions between Cosmo, Victor, and brother Lenny (Armand Assante, I, The Jury) might rip the famiIy apart first.
Marking the directorial debut of StaIIone, co-starring Anne Archer, Joe SpineIl, and Tom Waits, and featuring appearances by a roster of legendary professional wrestIers (incIuding Terry Funk, Ted DiBiase, and Ray Stevens), Paradise Alley is "an upbeat, funny, nostalgic fiIm popuIated by colorfuI characters", (Variety)! |