SOPRANOS, THE: MEADOWLANDS (TV)
Summary
One in this darkly comic dramatic series centering around the crime empire and family life of Tony Soprano, a modern-day Mafia boss. In this episode, Christopher is released from the hospital after being brutally beaten one night at the Meadowlands, and he soon finds that his buddy Brendan has been shot to death in his bathtub. After believing that Tony is to blame, he realizes that Mikey Palmice, Junior's henchman, is behind the shooting. As a result, Tony attacks Mikey with a staple gun and bawls out Junior, leading to bad blood. Further complicating the "family business" is the fact that the mob's current boss, Jack, is dying of cancer. In addition, Tony contemplates giving up his psychotherapist, Dr. Melfi, since these visits put him in a vulnerable position in the mob's power play. But first he has a private detective follow her, resulting in disastrous results to Melfi's personal life. When Jack finally dies, Tony takes Melfi's advice and gives Junior the illusion of being in control by asking him to take charge of the organization. Meanwhile, a friend of Tony, Jr.'s, Jeremy, has been avoiding him, and proceeds to pick a fight with him. Searching for answers to Jeremy's odd behavior, Tony, Jr., learns about his father's involvement in organized crime from his sister Meadow.
(This program contains nudity and adult-oriented language.)
This selection from the Alan Gerry Cable Collection has been made available by the Gerry Foundation, Inc.
Details
- NETWORK: HBO
- DATE: January 31, 1999 Sunday 10:00 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 0:54:07
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: T:56634
- GENRE: Drama
- SUBJECT HEADING: Drama; Crime and criminals; Organized crime
- SERIES RUN: HBO - TV series, 1999-2007
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- Brad Grey … Executive Producer
- David Chase … Executive Producer, Created by
- Mitchell Burgess … Co-Executive Producer
- Robin Green … Co-Executive Producer
- Frank Renzulli … Supervising Producer
- Ilene S. Landress … Producer
- Martin Bruestle … Co-Producer
- James Manos, Jr. … Co-Producer
- Henry J. Bronchtein … Associate Producer
- John Patterson … Director
- Jason Cahill … Writer
- James Gandolfini … Cast, Tony Soprano
- Lorraine Bracco … Cast, Dr. Jennifer Melfi
- Edie Falco … Cast, Carmela Soprano
- Michael Imperioli … Cast, Christopher Moltisanti
- Dominic Chianese … Cast, Corrado "Junior" Soprano
- Vincent Pastore … Cast, Big Pussy Bompenserio
- Van Zandt, Steven … Cast, Silvio Danto
- Tony Sirico … Cast, Paulie Walnuts
- Robert Iler … Cast, Anthony Soprano, Jr.
- Jamie-Lynn Sigler … Cast, Meadow Soprano
- Nancy Marchand … Cast, Livia Soprano
- Al Sapienza … Cast, Mikey Palmice
- Anthony Desando … Cast, Brendan Filone
- de Matteo, Drea … Cast, Adriana
- Jerry Adler … Cast, Hesh Rabkin
- Tony Darrow … Cast, Larry Boy barese
- George Loros … Cast, Raymond Curto
- Joe Badalucco … Cast, Jimmy Altieri
- Sharon Angela … Cast, Rosalie Aprile
- John Arocho … Cast, Kid #2
- Oksana Babiy … Cast, Irina
- Michael Buscemi … Cast, Pantowski
- T.J. Coluca … Cast, Jeremy Piocosta
- Michele deCesare … Cast, Hunter Scangarelo
- Guillermo Diaz … Cast, the Salesperson
- Daniel Hilt … Cast, Kid #3
- Ray Michael Karl … Cast, the Teacher
- Theresa Lynn … Cast, the Stripper
- Shawn McLean … Cast, Yo Yo Mendez
- Annika Pergament … Cast, the News Anchor
- Sal Petraccione … Cast, George Piocosta
- James Spector … Cast, Kid #1
- Corrine Stella … Cast, the Woman
- Anthony Tavaglione … Cast, Lance
- John Heard … Cast, Det. Vin Makazian
- Michael Rispoli … Cast, Jackie Aprile
- Michael Blum … Cast, Randall Curtin