The Pope of Greenwich Village is a 1984 Black Comedy crime film starring Mickey Rourke, Eric Roberts, Daryl Hannah and Geraldine Page in one of the shortest Oscar-nominated performances. The film is about two cousins, Charlie and Paulie, who start out working in a restaurant pulling petty schemes. Desperate for money after they're caught and fired, they decide to rob a local mobster. The robbery doesn't work out so well....
This film contains examples of:
- Fingore: Bed Bug Eddie's crew cuts off Paulie's thumb.
- Honor Among Thieves: Two examples. First, Paulie refuses to rat Charlie out. Second, Barney, knowing that Paulie will snitch on him soon, tells Charlie he will have to go on the run soon, and begs for help, specifically saying he knows Charlie has honor. Charlie sends him his part of the loot.
- Insane Troll Logic: Virtually everything that Paulie says. There is no justification he won't use, and he is shameless about it.
- Robbing the Mob Bank: Desperate for money, Charlie and Paulie find a retired safecracker named Barney and crack open a safe. Too bad it belonged to Bed Bug Eddie's company and he had revenge on his mind.
- Sharp-Dressed Man: The movie opens with Charlie getting dressed for work and shows off his wardrobe of suits. Even though he loses his job in the beginning of the movie, he wears a suit every day. At one point him and his friends play stickball in their suits.
- The Caper: Charlie and Paulie decide to rob a safe, and team up with a
- Trapped by Gambling Debts: Charlie alludes to being this. He owes not one Loan Shark, but two. When coming out of a horse betting parlor, he admits he spends too much money there. When he wins $20,000 Paulie sees this as a reprieve.
- The Mafia: Bed Bug Eddie and Uncle Pete are implied to be part of it.
- The Power of Family: Why Charlie keeps Paulie around, even though everyone tells Charlie he's bad news. Diane leaves him over it.
