Many Saints of Newark, The

[Opens Oct. 1 in theaters and available on HBO Max.] Michael Imperioli narrates Alan Taylor's intense, violent, superbly acted, bullet-riddled, well-written, star-studded (Leslie Odom Jr., Billy Magnussen, Michela De Rossi, John Magaro, Gabriella Piazza, David Chase, Alexandra Intrator, Lesli Margherita, and Joey Diaz), 2-hour prequel to The Sopranos television show that focuses on 11-year-old Anthony Soprano (William Ludwig) who lives with his mentally unstable mother (Vera Farmiga) and father (Jon Bernthal) in 1967 in Newark, N.J., and as a teenager (Michael Gandolfini) idolizes his murdering gangster uncle (Alessandro Nivola) and grows up with streetwise, notorious, crime family members (Ray Liotta, Corey Stoll, Nick Vallelonga, et al.) who negatively shape his life as he becomes a powerful Mafia boss.
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