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American Boy: A Profile of: Steven Prince
American Boy: A Profile of Steven Prince is a 1978 documentary directed by Martin Scorsese. Its subject is Scorsese's friend Steven Prince, best known for his small role as Easy Andy, the gun salesman in Taxi Driver. Prince is a raconteur telling wild stories about his life as an ex-drug addict and a road manager for Neil Diamond. Scorsese intersperses home movies of Prince as a child as he talks about his family.
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American Boy: A Profile of: Steven Prince

1978
Documentary
55m
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Avg Percentile 60.47% from 109 total ratings

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Rated 05 Jul 2010
8
82nd
Highly entertaining but your level of enjoyment will depend on how much you like Scorsese and Prince. I think they are both great so this was a fun watch for me. You should also see it if you enjoyed Pulp Fiction cause Tarantino does a nice job stealing from this movie, but hey they don't call him the greatest collage artist of all time for nothing.
Rated 16 Nov 2008
4
83rd
I've always been a big fan of the Easy Andy character in Scorsese's Taxi Driver, so it was nice to finally hear his story. And what a story it is! Somebody needs to direct a biopic about this guy. From stabbing a syringe of adrenaline into the heart of a girl who OD'ed on heroin (sound familiar?), to blowing a speed addict to pieces with a .44 Magnum in the middle of the desert, this dude has been through some truly fucked up shit. Fascinating picture about a fascinating life.
Rated 28 Jul 2009
4
70th
Wherein Martin Scorsese's buddy discusses reviving an overdose victim with an adrenaline syringe, blasting a knife-wielding maniac in the chest with a .44 magnum in the desert, hanging out with silverback gorillas, touring with Neil Diamond, and generally sharing the details of his bizarre and fascinating experiences as an actor in 1970s Los Angeles. You could make a series out of this guy, or at least a hell of a biopic. I could listen to Prince tell stories for hours.
Rated 16 Aug 2009
80
62nd
Stoned.
Rated 14 Dec 2011
85
87th
Never knew an hour passes that quickly.. Such a shame, I wish it was 2 hours longer
Rated 26 Feb 2012
77
55th
A small documentary that's just a bunch of lively people sitting/wrestling around and listening to this rather interesting guy tell some rather interesting stories.
Rated 11 Aug 2014
80
50th
Steven Prince, and how the stories he tells may or may not inform the person he apparently is when Scorsese and his crew show up at his place to film him. The reason I watched all 55 minutes is not because I wasn't able to justify turning off a film directed by one of American cinema's greatest living assets, but because these anecdotes are very engrossing. That, and that alone, is the appeal of this piece. You want to hear a guy tell a story? Look here.
Rated 21 Sep 2015
75
59th
Scoring it this high cuz Steven Prince is nuts
Rated 25 Sep 2018
80
37th
Viewed September 24, 2018.
Rated 11 Feb 2023
46
28th
If I gave a shit about Steven Prince this might've been more interesting.

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