reported by L. Davenport, CyberScreenwriter.com

Danny Fisher, CEO of New York-based City Lights Pictures, has acquired North American distribution rights to the dramatic thriller "Brooklyn Rules."

"Brooklyn Rules," set in 1985 with the mob world as a backdrop, is a powerful story about three lifelong friends whose different ambitions threaten to shake their enduring bond as they struggle with questions of love, loss and loyalty.

The movie was penned by Sopranos writer Terence Winter and stars recent Golden Globe winner Alec Baldwin, Freddie Prinze Jr., Mena Suvari, Scott Caan and Jerry Ferrara. Director Michael Corrente ("Outside Providence") also produced the film along with Marisa Polvino and Richard Barton Lewis and co-produced by Richard Perello.