Big Night (1995)
Country: US
Technical: col 109m
Director: Stanley Tucci, Campbell Scott
Cast: Stanley Tucci, Tony Shalhoub, Minnie Driver, Ian Holm, Isabella Rossellini
Synopsis:
The conflict between two immigrant restaurateur brothers - the one's culinary purism versus the other's readiness to compromise in the name of New World success - comes to a head when they stake everything on a celebrity night.
Review:
A saddening film because one can see both brothers' sides and there is no resolution. If anything one comes down in favour of the idealistic chef, whose intransigence is matched by his constancy in love, contrasted with Tucci's infidelity; though this too we can excuse since it is part of his acquisitiveness.
Country: US
Technical: col 109m
Director: Stanley Tucci, Campbell Scott
Cast: Stanley Tucci, Tony Shalhoub, Minnie Driver, Ian Holm, Isabella Rossellini
Synopsis:
The conflict between two immigrant restaurateur brothers - the one's culinary purism versus the other's readiness to compromise in the name of New World success - comes to a head when they stake everything on a celebrity night.
Review:
A saddening film because one can see both brothers' sides and there is no resolution. If anything one comes down in favour of the idealistic chef, whose intransigence is matched by his constancy in love, contrasted with Tucci's infidelity; though this too we can excuse since it is part of his acquisitiveness.
Country: US
Technical: col 109m
Director: Stanley Tucci, Campbell Scott
Cast: Stanley Tucci, Tony Shalhoub, Minnie Driver, Ian Holm, Isabella Rossellini
Synopsis:
The conflict between two immigrant restaurateur brothers - the one's culinary purism versus the other's readiness to compromise in the name of New World success - comes to a head when they stake everything on a celebrity night.
Review:
A saddening film because one can see both brothers' sides and there is no resolution. If anything one comes down in favour of the idealistic chef, whose intransigence is matched by his constancy in love, contrasted with Tucci's infidelity; though this too we can excuse since it is part of his acquisitiveness.