AN EVENING WITH CHAZZ PALMINTERI - Presented by Broadway in Tucson January 26, 2009

YONKERS JOE is an exciting, high-stakes con film and moving family drama written and directed by Robert Celestino, and starring Academy Award-nominee Chazz Palminteri (A Bronx Tale, Bullets Over Broadway, The Usual Suspects), Academy Award-winner Christine Lahti (Running on Empty, Swing Shift), Tom Guiry (The Black Donnelleys), Golden Globe-nominee Linus Roache (Find Me Guilty), and Academy Award-nominee Michael Lerner (Barton Fink).
An ode to old time gamblers, now outdated in an age of powerful upscale casinos, YONKERS JOE tells the story of a dice hustler (Palminteri) whose determination to make one last grab for a big score in Vegas is complicated by the reappearance of his estranged, mentally challenged son into his life.

CHAZZ PALMINTERI is an acclaimed actor/writer of stage and screen, and the star of numerous films including Woody Allen's Bullets Over Broadway (for which he received an Oscar nomination as Best Supporting Actor), A Bronx Tale (adapted from Palminteri's 1989 semi-autobiographical one-man stage show), The Usual Suspects, Hurlyburly, Analyze This, A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints and Mulholland Falls, among others. He has also lent his voice to various animated features, including 2006's Hoodwinked, and directed TV and feature films, including 2004's Noel starring Alan Arkin and Susan Sarandon.

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