Brooklyn '76

<p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In the heart of Bensonhurst an Italian American family struggles to survive one explosive day-the nation's Bicentennial.</strong></p><p><span>??</span>The Agnello family wakes Bicentennial morning to the sound of fireworks. Outside their apartment block party preparations are already underway. Paulie husband and father has been out on strike with his union and is desperate to make ends meet. Dee wife and mother is overprotective of her children and a stern judge of character particularly when it comes to Paulie. Tony the dutiful elder son who is fast coming of age now obsesses over his first girlfriend and stands ready to defy his parents to spend the Fourth with her. Alex the younger son still sees the world through innocent eyes a perspective unlikely to survive the day.</p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>As the neighborhood celebrates a string of public missteps drives the family apart forcing each Agnello to face their own insecurities and regrets. At nightfall the fireworks extravaganza draws the scattered family back together</span>-but celebration soon turns into tragedy and one life is left hanging in the balance. Funny dark and unsentimental <em>Brooklyn '76</em> is an urgent family drama set against the backdrop of a working-class neighborhood-and a country-on the brink of transformation.</p>