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(3 STARS) ASTORIA (R). Coming-of-age story set and filmed in the eponymous Queens neighborhood. It's about a 28-year-old, second- generation Greek-American (Rick Stear) who works in his father's restaurant while dreaming of bigger things. With Paige Turco, Ed Setrakian and Joseph D'Onofrio. Written and directed by Nick Efteriades. 1:43. (vulgar language). At the Village East Cinemas, 2nd Avenue at 12th Street, Manhattan.
THE STORY "Astoria" tells is an old one, enacted in hundreds of small towns and insular neighborhoods. It's the familiar song of yearning, chanted mostly - and loudly - by those in their mid- to late-20s. As I recall, it goes something like this: There's got to be something better than these same old streets and these same old faces and the same-old same old!
"Astoria's"...