TY - SER
KW - Roman Catholics
KW - Pittsburgh Police
KW - Italian Americans
KW - waste collectors
KW - paramedics
KW - medical interns
KW - people with intellectual disabilities
KW - professional wrestling
AU - Alvin Sargent
AU - Corey Blechman
AB - Gino Luciano (Ray Liotta), a young medical student, struggles to care for his twin brother Nicky (Tom Hulce), an intellectually challenged garbage collector. The twins’ relationship is challenged when Gino, who has sparked a new romance with a nurse (Jamie Lee Curtis), must decide whether to leave Pittsburgh and Nicky to complete his education at Stanford.
C1 - 1980s
C2 - unpublished
C3 - Allegheny County, Monongahela River, Ohio River, Allegheny River, Pittsburgh, Downtown, South Side
C4 - Psychological; Romance
LA - English
M3 - Screenplay
N1 - The film was shot in Pittsburgh.
Tom Hulce was nominated for a Best Actor Golden Globe.
The script is now held in Beverly Hills at the Margaret Herrick Library of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
N2 - Gino Luciano (Ray Liotta), a young medical student, struggles to care for his twin brother Nicky (Tom Hulce), an intellectually challenged garbage collector. The twins’ relationship is challenged when Gino, who has sparked a new romance with a nurse (Jamie Lee Curtis), must decide whether to leave Pittsburgh and Nicky to complete his education at Stanford.
PY - 1988
RN - Alvin Sargent (1927—2019), born in Philadelphia, won Academy Awards for two of his screenplays, Julia (1977) and Ordinary People (1980). Corey Blechman is a screenwriter.
EP - 125 p.
TI - Dominick and Eugene
ER -