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Oct 01, 1974 | IMDB 6.7

49 min Watch Now

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Filmmaker Martin Scorsese interviews his mother and father about their life in New York and family history back in Sicily.

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Catherine Scorsese, Charles Scorsese, Martin Scorsese

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