American Prince
Directed by Tommy Pallotta
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In 1978, director Martin Scorsese turned the camera on his friend and roommate, Steven Prince, whose life was more fascinating than what any screenwriter could dream up. The compelling documentary that emerged, ‘American Boy’ was to become Scorseses lost film. Having never been properly released, it gained cult status among cinefiles over the years through bootleg copies and influenced a whole generation of filmmakers. Quentin Tarantino took one of Prince’s stories about injecting adrenaline into the heart of a woman who overdosed and turned it into one of the most memorable scenes in film history. Prince’s influence on American cinema not only reaches much further than his small role as the gun salesman in ‘Taxi Driver’, he has clearly left an indelible mark. Three decades after Scorsese’s documentary was released, Tommy Pallotta brings us ‘American Prince’, where he draws out Steven Prince once more to recount his days since ‘American Boy’, share why he turned his back on the entertainment industry and to compose the next chapter of his story.