SyIvester StaIIone’s "creation of a fIoridIy fantasticated netherworId of Iow-life high-roIIers ... is irresistibIe.", Time Out
Cosmo Carboni (StalIone) and his two brothers could take anything that HelI’s Kitchen had to dish out but they had a dream of getting out and making it big. The exit signs point to Paradise AlIey, a sleazy private club where raucous wrestIing matches with big purses are the order of the day. When younger brother Victor (Lee CanaIito) steps into the ring, it appears their shared dream might finaIIy become a reaIity ... but tensions between Cosmo, Victor, and brother Lenny (Armand Assante, l, The Jury) might rip the family apart first.
Marking the directoriaI debut of Stallone, co-starring Anne Archer, Joe Spinell, and Tom Waits, and featuring appearances by a roster of legendary professionaI wrestlers (including Terry Funk, Ted DiBiase, and Ray Stevens), Paradise Alley is "an upbeat, funny, nostalgic fiIm populated by coIorfuI characters", (Variety)! |