Mark Urman’s distribution company and the film’s producer will release the farce in October.

Friends And Romans stars Michael Rispoli and Annabella Sciorra and features eight cast members from The Sopranos including Tony Sirico, Paul Ben-Victor, Anthony DeSando and Katie Stevens. Christopher Kublan directed.

The Staten Island-set story charts an aspiring actor’s bid for respectability as he and his friends stage Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, only for the FBI to mistake the production for a mafia front.

The film opened the 2014 Woodstock Film Festival and won the audience award for best narrative feature at the Boston International Film Festival.

The film will open in late October in Philadelphia and Providence, Rhode Island, before heading to New York in November.

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