Basically, this is a tale told with many hairdos. (A clever bit of beyond-the-grave multitasking, this, and entirely egregious.) Throughout Chick’s day with his mom, we see flashbacks of his college years (Imperioli with a crazy, corkscrewing ’70s-era ‘fro) and his very brief glory days with the Mets (Imperioli with a Hernandez-esque ‘stache). Huddling on the brink of death, he’s magically granted one last day with his mother, who helps Chick sort out his life while inexplicably dragging him along on visits to dying old women, whose hair she fixes so they’ll look pretty when they cross over. Chick, we discover, is a suicidal, washed-up baseball player with daddy issues who lost his family because he started boozing after the death of his mom, Posey (Ellen Burstyn), a decade-ish earlier. Where Imperioli’s Christopher Moltisanti left off, dead in a smashed car, due to drugged driving and a malevolent father figure, Imperioli’s Chick Benetto picks up - almost dead in a smashed car, due to drunk driving and a malevolent father.
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