Fighting Back (1982) on Netflix
John D'Angelo runs a Philadelphia deli while crime rises around him. After a pimp rams the family car and robbers assault his mother, John and his friend Vince organize a neighborhood patrol.
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Plot summary
John D'Angelo keeps a deli in Philadelphia, and the streets around it are turning dangerous. Eldorado, a pimp, is beating one of the women who works for him when John and his wife Lisa drive past. Lisa speaks up; the pimp chases them and rams the back of their car, Lisa is hurt, and the baby she is carrying is lost. Later, thieves in the street go after John's mother Vera and her wedding ring. John and his closest friend Vince Morelli, a police officer, decide the residents should defend themselves, and they form the People's Neighborhood Patrol. Members wear blue hats and vests with a PNP logo, staff a phone line and ride in marked cars, and the police permit them to patrol.
Cast
- Gina DeAngelesas Vera D'Angelo
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Fighting Back (1982)
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- Producer Dino De Laurentiis, fresh from the hit vigilante film Death Wish, developed Fighting Back with one director but replaced him with Lewis Teague just two weeks before filming started.
- Fighting Back was rumored to be based on Anthony Imperiale, a former city councilman in Newark, New Jersey, who organized a vigilante group.
- Director Lewis Teague wanted a Raging Bull-style story built around a flawed hero, but producer Dino De Laurentiis pushed for scenes showing the lead as heroic, leaving Teague to call the picture "a little schizophrenic in its point of view".
