Uplifting, but an insult to Italian Americans

Rating: 7/10 (28 February 2019)

This movie was uplifting. It was based on the association/friendship between two men, but it is, for the most part, fiction. It is only loosely based on truth. To please Hollywood, they put in the part about Don Shirley being caught having sex with another man at a YMCA. According to what I have read, this never happened. It surprises me that Hollywood is so concerned about furthering the cause of the LGBT community, and about paying homage to the plight of African Americans in this country, yet they give the Academy Award to a film that portrays an Italian American man in the worst light. This film plays off a stereotype that insults the intelligence. This movie portrays Frank Anthony Vallelonga as a total idiot. That he wasn't. He was a very intelligent actor. If he were alive today, I am sure that he would object to his name being placed on this character in the film. I am sure that Don Shirley would object to the way his character is portrayed, as well.