想当 年

Set in bot

h the late
80's and current da y, "Back in the Day&qu ot;
 is a gritty tal
e about Ant  ho ny Rodr
iguez ( 
W
 ill ia m DeMeo), a half Italian - half Puert
o Rican young te

enager grow ing up on the street s of
Bensonhurst, Brooklyn; a th en very dangerous and rac
ist neighborhood filled with 
bullies , b ig shots an d  social cl
ub
 s where all of the  neighborhoo d shots we
re cal  l ed. Anthony had to endur e 
an ab
usive, unemployed, alc 
oholic fathe  r but 
was blessed with a nurturing, hard-wo
rking mother
who 
he loses at a ve ry early age and 

is de vastated
by it. In spite

o  f his  bi tt
ernes s, he st  rugg les to u phold the m
ora
ls his Mother tau ght him and   retain
hi 
s dignity

in spit
 e  of



 bein
g up against all odds. He is taken unde r th e w ing of 
a local mob boss , Enzo DeVino (Michael Madsen), who s uppor
ts Anthony&#39  ;s wishe
s to escape his   demons through the sport of  boxing. Enzo connect s An
thon y with a  traine r (Danny Glover), who means busi ness, a
nd turns
Anthony int  o a contender although his tro ubled li fe and f riends, who seem t o always g e
 t
him i  nto trouble, hinder  his c areer. As he journeys into adultho od 
 with the  nearly impossible goal of achieving a 
successful professional boxing c
areer, Anthony m a na 
ges to not only go pr  o, bu t lite rally
fight his way to the top and  beco

me a world champion  middlew eight boxer at an unlikely age. But
 not witho ut love, l
o
ss of lo ve, humiliation, re


taliation and revenge play  ing
 r o
l
es in his journey to  the top. But when
 he fin
 ally does  make   it to the  top,  w
ho will be left
 of any
one Anthony has ever cared about, to share it with ? And who will be left to  get in t
he way of Anthon
y's success, and living  h
is
 dream?