History YMMV / ABronxTale

* WhatAnIdiot: Mario rolling a Molotov cocktail instead of throwing it, [[spoiler: which enabled one of the Black gang members to throw it back at their getaway car, causing an explosion that killed Mario and the rest of C’s friends]]

** Brancato revealed in an interview that it was during the film's production that he started doing drugs and, in a case of life imitating art, both Creator/RobertDeNiro and Creator/ChazzPalmintieri tried to persuade him not to. Palmintieri took Brancato's actions very personally [[note]]understandable since he hired the guy to play himself in a story about his father stressing the importance of not wasting your talent[[/note]] and cut off all contact with him.

** On the ''Radio/OpieAndAnthony Show'', Creator/ChazzPalmintieri and comedian Rich Vos read a scene from the movie. And to this day, every once in a while on the show you'll hear the "Louie! Beans!" done in Rich's mushmouthed style.

* AwardSnub: Despite generally positive reviews, in a packed season of new Broadway musicals, the show did not earn a single UsefulNotes/TonyAward nomination. Many were particularly upset about Nick Cordero not being nominated for playing Sonny.

** Brancato revealed in an interview that it was during the film's production that he started doing drugs and, in a case of life imitating art, both Creator/RobertDeNiro and Chazz Palmintieri tried to persuade him not to. Palmintieri took Brancato's actions very personally [[note]]understandable since he hired the guy to play himself in a story about his father stressing the importance of not wasting your talent[[/note]] and cut off all contact with him.

** On the ''Radio/OpieAndAnthony Show'', Chazz Palmintieri and comedian Rich Vos read a scene from the movie. And to this day, every once in a while on the show you'll hear the "Louie! Beans!" done in Rich's mushmouthed style.

* AwardSnub: Despite generally positive reviews, in a packed season of new Broadway musicals, the show did not earn a single Tony nomination. Many were particularly upset about Nick Cordero not being nominated for playing Sonny.

* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: It's hard to feel sorry for Jane's brother and his friends getting beat up by the Italians given that they were walking through their neighborhood and loudly calling them all "wops" and "greaseballs". In the film at least, they were just riding their bikes home and minding their own business.

* HarsherInHindsight: The refrain of "the saddest thing in life is wasted talent" became this in 2020 when Nick Cordero, the original Sonny on Broadway, died at the relatively young age of 41 due to complications from COVID-19.

* WhatAnIdiot: Mario rolling a Molotov cocktail instead of throwing it, [[Spoiler: which enabled one of the Black gang members to throw it back at their getaway car, causing an explosion that killed Mario and the rest of C’s friends]]

* MemeticMutation: On the ''Radio/OpieAndAnthony Show'', Chazz Palmintieri and comedian Rich Vos read a scene from the movie. And to this day, every once in a while on the show you'll hear the "Louie! Beans!" done in Rich's mushmouthed style.

* EarWorm: "Belmont Avenue", "Roll 'Em", and "I Like It".

** Brancato revealed in an interview that it was during the film's production that he started doing drugs and, in a case of life imitating art, both Robert De Niro and Chazz Palmintieri tried to persuade him not to. Palmintieri took Brancato's actions very personally [[note]]understandable since he hired the guy to play himself in a story about his father stressing the importance of not wasting your talent[[/note]] and cut off all contact with him.
* HilariousInHindsight: Lorenzo expresses discomfort at the idea of C hypothetically dating a black woman; 4 years after this film's release, Robert De Niro married a black woman.

** Brancato revealed in an interview that it was during the film's production that he started doing drugs and, in a case of life imitating art, both Robert De Niro and Chazz Palmintieri tried to persuade him not to. Palmintieri took Brancato's actions very personally and cut off all contact with him.

* HarsherInHindsight: Lillo Brancato, who plays C, later did fall into a life of crime and spent five years in prison for a burglary that led to the death of a police officer.

* EarWorm: "Belmont Avenue", "Roll 'Em", and "I Like It".

* MemeticMutation: On the ''Radio/OpieAndAnthony Show'', Chazz Palmintieri and comedian Rich Vos read a scene from the movie. And to this day, every once in a while on the show you'll hear the "Louie! Beans!" done in Rich's mushmouthed style.

** Brancato revealed in an interview that it was during the film's production that he started doing drugs and, in a case of life imitating art, both Robert De Niro and Chazz Palmintieri tried to persuade him not to.

* HarsherInHindsight: Lillo Brancato, who plays C, later did fall into a life of crime and is now in prison for a burglary that led to the death of a police officer.

* ''HarsherInHindsight'': Lillo Brancato, who plays C, later did fall into a life of crime and is now in prison for a burgulary that led to the death of a Police Officer.
* HilariousInHindsight: Lorenzo expresses discomfort at the idea of C hypothetically dating a black woman; 4 years after this film's release, Robert De Niro married a black woman.

* ''HarsherInHindsight'': Lillo Brancato, who plays C, later did fall into a life of crime and is now in prison for a burgulary that led to the death of a Police Officer.

* ''HarsherInHindsight'': Lillo Brancato, who plays C, later did fall into a life of crime and is now in prison for Murder.