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Monument Ave.
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
DVD Layers: 1
DVD Sides: 1
EAN: 9780788815706
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0788815709
Label: Miramax
Languages: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1
Manufacturer: Miramax
MPN: D17093D
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Letterbox
Publisher: Miramax
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 18, 1999
Running Time: 93 minutes
Studio: Miramax
Theatrical Release Date: September 25, 1998
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Editorial Review:
Denis Leary (TV's THE JOB) and Martin Sheen (THE AMERICAN PRESIDENT) star in this explosive story about the power of loyalty, community, and friendship in the world of organized crime. In a tough Irish-American neighborhood, Bobby (Leary) is a small-time car thief working for the area's top mobster (Colm Meany -- CON AIR, THE SNAPPER). But then, Bobby's own gang kills members of his family, leaving Bobby faced with a tough choice: defend his family honor or obey the rigid neighborhood code of silence! With co-stars Billy Crudup (ALMOST FAMOUS) and Famke Janssen (GOLDEN EYE), MONUMENT AVE. is gripping entertainment in the tradition of GOODFELLAS!
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - Irish gangster activity served up all nice and steamy for ya
Gritty, funny, buddies, drugs, drinkin', crime, and Denis Leary = pretty good movie. Denis is one of those guys who doesn't ever seem to be acting. He's always some version of himself, which happens to be something I like. I suppose, due to my past life I never tire of watching guys sitting around partying and discussing pointless, banal topics with fervor and passion fueled by drugs and camaraderie. I'm getting to relive my youth vicariously sans the bad health and police issues. The plot was basic ... Read More
Rating:  - dark dark dark
I bought this DVD because Ted Demme was a great director und Denis Leary is a good actor, but having seen this film once I think I have seen it one time too often. This is one of those films where everything is dark, dark, dark. Not one bright moment, no humor at all, and in the end there is the eternal american message: The good guy shoots the bad guy and all is well and we can go to bed. And of course, if you cut out the f*** word, the film would run 60 minutes instead of boring 90.
Rating: - monument Avenue
I like Dennis Leary and Baltimore, so I should have liked the movie, but it is too irish mafia for me, especially in Baltimore which is more polish than irish, and the scenario is pretty poor. Famke Jannsen is her usual sexy self but I fail to see her connection to Leary or to the irish mob boss
Rating: - The easy life in a microcosm of car ring gang
MONUMENT AVE (aka SNITCH 1998), is somewhat of a chick-flick in a
masculine version, telling a story of a number of youths all from the
same neighborhood, who somehow escaped the radar screen of law
enforcement. This is said to stem from from the incompetence of the
constable, his being on the take, or from looking the other way due
to his shared ethnicity (Irish-Americans, Martin Sheen) with the
other delinquent elements.
The lead characters, among them ... Read More
Rating:  - Vastly Underrated -- Best Boston Movie Ever
Anyone who grew up in Boston in the 1980s and 1990s will tell you, this is one of the best Boston movies ever made and comes as close as a fictional movie can to feeling like, at times, a documentary (only "The Verdict" comes as close to capturing what Boston is all about). It absolutely blows Good Will Hunting away. (The film "Southie", while truly awful at parts, is actually better than most people think, starred a Dorchester native, and was written by another. While it was set in NYC, "State of Grace" ... Read More
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