Fingers

Fingers (1978)

Some will love it. Others will be angered by it. Everyone will be stunned by it!

A wanna-be concert pianist spends his days making a living by collecting debts for his Mafioso father, a lifestyle that could eventually ruin his dreams of a musical career.

Date of release
1978-03-02
TMDB
6.2 / 10 (71)
Runtime
1h 30m
Genres
Drama, Action, Thriller, Crime
Director
James Toback

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: New York City

Fingers is a 1978 American crime drama film directed by James Toback. The film is about a troubled young man being pulled between his mob father and his mentally disturbed pianist mother.

Production

James Toback said he originally wanted Robert de Niro to play the lead, but then decided to use de Niro's best friend Harvey Keitel. "Harvey agreed to play Jimmy and quickly began to astonish me by taking the character into dimensions of darkness well beyond my original imagining", wrote Toback. The film was remade in 2005 in France as The Beat That My Heart Skipped.

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