Two Bits

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Coming-of-age drama set in Philadelphia during the Depression. Young Gennaro (Jerry Barone) needs a quarter to go & see a film in the new movie theatre that has just opened in his neighborhood. His grandfather is convinced that this is the day he is going to die, & so tells Gennaro that he can have the quarter after he is dead. Not believing him, Gennaro sets off across the city to find a quarter of his own, & it is only after an unsuccessful day that he accepts his grandfather's offer
- to pass on a message to a woman he wronged many years before, & to ask for her forgiveness. After Gennaro completes this task, everyone in the neighborhood is shocked to find that the grandfather's prediction was correct, & that after receiving this woman's forgiveness, he is now able to pass away.