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Sal Mineo has got to be the best!, February 23, 2002
A Kid's Review
This review is from: Dino [VHS] (VHS Tape)
When I first saw Sal in Rebel, I figuired he couldn't get any better. Evidently, he can! He does an amazing job of showing the mind set of a juvnelle dilequent. Myself, being a teen, he relates on a tremendous different levels. He has always inspired me and this movie really hit my heart. His performance carries the entire film, carrying his veiwers to tears. Sal just has to be the best!
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
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Way to go Sal !!!!!!!!!, April 13, 2001
This review is from: Dino [VHS] (VHS Tape)
Sal Mineo, thee most talented actor ever to bless the silver screen in the 20th Century, show's the world what true acting is all about. Sal plays the role of Dino, a young boy who got mixed up in the wrong crowd, and was sent to a detention centre for 3 years for his involvement in a murder. Dino emerges 3 years later, a tough, but very afraid kid, who resents that his family never visited him while he was away, and that more importantly to him, he was never kissed. Sal Mineo, portrays Dino so well, and even his real life brother Michael plays the role of his on screen brother Tony. This movie is SO good, and is one you must see. It makes me sad though, that Sal Mineo is no longer with us, as if you buy this, you'll see how brightly Sal Mineo the movie star truly shines.
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A deliquent learns to trust his case worker and himself, July 21, 1998
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This review is from: Dino [VHS] (VHS Tape)
Think Good Will Hunting of the 1950s with a prettier cast and without the struggles over genuis that the charactert of Will faces. Dino Minetta (played wonderfully by Sal Mineo who won an Emmy nomination for this role) has just been released from a reformatory after killing a man. His parole officer makes him see a "head doctor" at a local settlement house. Seridan (Brian Keith), the "head shrinker" as Dino calls him, takes Dino on and becomes his case worker. Through the course of the movie he makes Dino face the truth about his homelife, his life in prison, and the dark ghosts haunting him. Dino resents Sheridan at first, but after he faces his father's cruel beating for the last time, he admits all he ever wanted was his father's love, tearfully wailing, "He never even gave me bear hugs. He would only hit me. But he never made me cry. Never made me cry." Sheridan tells him that it isn't his fault the way he has been treated and t! hat he is just a kid who is 16 years old-- that he still has a life to live. Dino meets a kind girl Shirley (the fabulous but under-rated Susan Kohner) and she exerts a positive force in his life. Dino backs out of a planned robbery with his brother, and decides to continue therapy. A milder Dino asks if his brother can join him at Sheridan's office because he refuses to allow his little brother who idolizes him to turn out like he has. He begins the work to change his life away from the rebellion and crime he has always favored. The film has stellar preformances by Mineo, Keith and Kohner. Masked as a typical "j.d" flick, the film has greater underlying themes which were frankly scandalous for a 1957 TV movie, including child abuse, prison brutality and the shame about seeing professional help. Sal Mineo, a taut beautiful 17 year old best known for his work in Rebel Without a Cause at this time, also has one of the best crying scenes ever captured on cellul! oid. Matt Damon had to watch this for inspiration. --Kim! berley Hartman END
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