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"The Soprano State", Documentary: Part One
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posted Oct 7, 2010, 05:03
The film features interviews and commentary from the attorneys, politicians, federal prosecutors and journalists who witnessed it all. The film is narrated by Tony Darrow, who has played in a variety of films, including The Sopranos and Goodfellas.
(New York) New Jersey Pictures announced that "The Soprano State",
New Jersey's Culture of Corruption, The Documentary: Part One, a film inspired
by the New York Times Bestselling book by Bob Ingle and Sandy McClure, and produced
by three-time Academy Award® nominee Steve Kalafer, his producing partner
Bruce Raiffe, and directed by Peter LeDonne, will be released in select Clearview
Cinemas beginning Friday, October 22, 2010. The film's official premier is scheduled
for Monday, October 18, at Clearview's Ziegfeld Theatre in New York City.
The documentary takes viewers on a wild ride of political power and corruption
that started when New Jersey was still a colony. The film exposes elected officials
who ran on platforms promising to end the very practices they now find themselves
behind bars for.
The film features interviews and commentary from the attorneys, politicians,
federal prosecutors and journalists who witnessed it all. The film is narrated
by Tony Darrow, who has played in a variety of films, including The Sopranos
and Goodfellas.
"The Soprano State", New Jersey's Culture of Corruption, The Documentary:
Part One, has reunited a very successful team. It is executive produced by Kellie
Pyffer. The combined talents of Kalafer, LeDonne and Pyffer produced the Academy
Award®-nominated films Curtain Call and Sister Rose's Passion, the latter
of which was the winner of the Best Documentary Short at the 2004 Tribeca Film
Festival. Both films were acquired by HBO. The trio also joined with Steven
Moskovic, who served as Director of Photography, on The Diary of Immaculee,
which was honored at The 2006 Toronto film Festival's "One By One"
event.
The production team for "The Soprano State" includes Moskovic (Director
of Photography), Daniel Raiffe (Associate Producer), and Molly Williamson (Editor).
This film is not yet rated.
About the Book: "The Soprano State: New Jersey's Culture
of Corruption" by veteran journalists Bob Ingle and Sandy McClure was published
by St. Martin's Press and became a New York Times Bestseller the first week,
selling out in three days. The latest version, to accompany the movie, will
be released this month. The book has been called "a page-turner. You start
out laughing and end up pounding the table for reform" by Tom Curley, CEO,
The Associated Press. "Looking for laughs at the expense of stupid criminals?
Their nonfiction tale reads like a pay-per-view epic, hence the Tony title.
Featured are real- life politicians, businessmen and mobsters who've less than
gracefully nabbed headlines the past 30 years," said the Athens (Ga.) Banner-Herald.
And from Barnes & Noble, "If Garden State politicians were worried
that The Sopranos would give Jersey a bad name, they would be mortified by the
allegations in Bob Ingle and Sandy McClure's revealing muckrake. Penned by two
hardworking Trenton investigative reporters, The Soprano State paints a picture
of widespread corruption that would embarrass even the Bada Bing! Crowd. Scandalously
good."
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