History Film / TheManySaintsOfNewark

* DomesticAbuse: When Johnny Boy gets tired of Livia's complaining, he takes his pistol and shoots her hairdo.

* TheLoinsSleepTonight: Junior is incredibly frustrated because he cannot perform sexually after he takes a nasty fall on the mortuary steps. Not because he can't get it up, but his back gives him too much pain and needs to heal.

* ParentalNeglect: Livia, who dismisses any chance of Tony having an academic future and shows no concern for Dickie bringing her son into TheMafia.

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Uncle Junior is an unrepentant gangster who frequently steals and murders, but he genuinely loves his nephew Tony and shows more concern for him than his parents.

* GenerationXerox: A major theme of the film is that back in the '70s, the elder [=DiMeo=] crime family members were just as petty as the members of the '90s-'00s and Tony and Carmela were just as unruly as Meadow and AJ when they were teenagers. Tony and Carmela are seen trying to snag beer for a WildTeenParty while [[spoiler:Junior has Dickie assassinated just because Dickie laughed at him for slipping on the stairs at a funeral.]]

* TheGhost: Tony Blundetto is mentioned by Livia as how she and Johnny Boy discovered Tony, Artie Bucco, and Jackie Aprile hijacked a Mr. Softee truck (Tony B told Janice who told Livia), but he never appears onscreen.

* MalcolmXerox: Harold [=McBrayer=] has shades of this, as his motivation during the second half of the film is for his group of black criminals to be the ones running the numbers racket in Newark's black neighborhoods instead of TheMafia. He makes the decision to fully break from the DiMeo family after going to a black power poetry reading.
* MeaninglessVillainVictory: Harold is victorious in the rivalry and gets to move into a wealthy white neighborhood, but it's a ForegoneConclusion that the DiMeo family will still be active in the future while Harold's empire seems to have had no lasting impact -- and worse yet, his heroin operation will destroy the same community he'd set out to empower.

** The younger Livia looks and sounds very similar to Carmela, playing into numerous hints about Tony's OedipusComplex during the series.

* OedipusComplex:
** Creator/VeraFarmiga was clearly cast due to her resemblance to Creator/EdieFalco, and even alters her voice to sound similar, playing into the numerous hints from the series that Tony is attracted to women like his mother. [[spoiler: Tony describes a time Livia "snuggled up close to him" and read him a bedtime story as "one of the best memories of his life" to a school guidance counselor.]]
** Dickie [[PlayingWithATrope plays with this]]: He doesn't have Oedipus complex per se, but he does follow the original Oedipus's story closely [[spoiler:as he murders his father and then proceeds to sleep with his father's widow]]. That said, what triggered him to [[spoiler:kill his father]] was "Hollywood Dick" badmouthing his mother.

* CreatorCameo: Creator/DavidChase appears briefly as, appropriately enough, Ercole "Eckley" [=DiMeo=], the actual boss of the DiMeo crime family (who was imprisoned by the time of the series and not referred to past the second season). He's only seen very briefly and not in much detail, walking through the post-funeral gathering.

* CheckovsClassroom: Early on in the film, during Janice Soprano's confirmation, Dickie, Johnny and Junior discuss the trouble black hoodlums are causing their numbers organization. Young Anthony overhears this and uses this as inspiration to start his own numbers racket at school, alongside his friend Artie Bucco.

* ChekovsClassroom: Early on in the film, during Janice Soprano's confirmation, Dickie, Johnny and Junior discuss the trouble black hoodlums are causing their numbers organization. Young Anthony overhears this and uses this as inspiration to start his own numbers racket at school, alongside his friend Artie Bucco.

* CastingGag: Big Pussy's actor, Creator/VincentPastore, is often noted to [[CelebrityResemblance look very similar]] to Joey Diaz. Naturally, Diaz plays the father of Big Pussy in this movie.

* TheReveal: After remaining very vague in the original series, [[spoiler: the circumstances behind Dickie's death are finally revealed.]] It eventually turns out that it was [[spoiler: ''Junior'' that is behind Dickie's death, hiring an assassin to do it for him. And to twist the knife even further, he seemingly did it just because Dickie laughed at him after having an accident.]]

* GloryDays: During the period the film is set in, before the RICO crackdowns of the '80s gutted the Mafia as a whole, the [=DiMeo=] crime family is at the height of its influence in North Jersey. However, it's ultimately {{Subverted}} as the film shows that things [[ NostalgiaAintLikeItUsedToBe really weren't all that much better]] during the height of the organization's influence.

* GloryDays: During the period the film is set in, before the RICO crackdowns of the '80s gutted the Mafia as a whole, the [=DiMeo=] crime family is at the height of its influence in North Jersey. However, it's ultimately {{Subverted}} as the film shows that things [[ NostalgiaAintWhatItUsedToBe really weren't all that much better]] during the height of the organization's influence.

* GloryDays: During the period the film is set in, before the RICO crackdowns of the '80s gutted the Mafia as a whole, the [=DiMeo=] crime family is at the height of its influence in North Jersey. However, it's ultimately {{Subverted}} as the film shows that things really weren't all that much better during the height of the organizations influence.

* GeniusBruiser: Despite his poor grades, Tony scores high in an I.Q. test and expresses a desire to go to college, and also doesn't hesitate to rough up anybody who slights him.

** Dickie deeply cares for Tony, to the point where it visibly pains him to shun his nephew and stay out of his life, as per his uncle (Sally)'s advice.

* MalcolmXerox: Harold [=McBrayer=] has shades of this, as his motivation during the second half of the film is for his group of black criminals to be the ones running the numbers racket in Newark's black neighborhoods instead of TheMafia.

* GeniusBruiser: In the trailer, Tony scores high in an I.Q. test and expresses a desire to go to college, and also doesn't hesitate to rough up anybody who slights him.