Daniel Ranieri

JR is a fatherless boy growing up in the glow of a bar where the bartender, his Uncle Charlie, is the sharpest and most colorful of an assortment of quirky and demonstrative father figures. As the boy’s determined mother struggles to provide her son with opportunities denied to her — and leave the dilapidated home of her outrageous if begrudgingly supportive father — JR begins to gamely, if not always gracefully, pursue his romantic and professional dreams, with one foot persistently placed in Uncle Charlie’s bar.

"Nothing Will Be the Same Again" is an urban "Stand By Me" crossed with the Little Rascals. Eleven-year-old Marty and Miguel are best friends in 1964 Brooklyn. When Miguel is killed, Marty is forced to grow up.