Dinner Rush (2000)
Country: US
Technical: Technicolor 98m
Director: Bob Giraldi
Cast: Danny Aiello, Edoardo Ballerini, Vivian Wu, Mike McGlone, Kirk Acevedo, Sandra Bernhard, Summer Phoenix, Mark Margolis
Synopsis:
In one night a successful Tribeca Italian restaurant pays host to a celebrated art exhibitor, a food critic, a policeman and two hoods from Queens who want a piece of the action.
Review:
A brilliant upstairs-downstairs portrait of the working life of a restaurant, with customers happily oblivious to the turmoil in the kitchen and the pressures on the management. A large number of characters are finely sketched as in Altman's best films, with which this merits comparison in all but its technical shortcomings (framing very variable, boom in shot at one point - clearly a tight schedule).
Country: US
Technical: Technicolor 98m
Director: Bob Giraldi
Cast: Danny Aiello, Edoardo Ballerini, Vivian Wu, Mike McGlone, Kirk Acevedo, Sandra Bernhard, Summer Phoenix, Mark Margolis
Synopsis:
In one night a successful Tribeca Italian restaurant pays host to a celebrated art exhibitor, a food critic, a policeman and two hoods from Queens who want a piece of the action.
Review:
A brilliant upstairs-downstairs portrait of the working life of a restaurant, with customers happily oblivious to the turmoil in the kitchen and the pressures on the management. A large number of characters are finely sketched as in Altman's best films, with which this merits comparison in all but its technical shortcomings (framing very variable, boom in shot at one point - clearly a tight schedule).
Country: US
Technical: Technicolor 98m
Director: Bob Giraldi
Cast: Danny Aiello, Edoardo Ballerini, Vivian Wu, Mike McGlone, Kirk Acevedo, Sandra Bernhard, Summer Phoenix, Mark Margolis
Synopsis:
In one night a successful Tribeca Italian restaurant pays host to a celebrated art exhibitor, a food critic, a policeman and two hoods from Queens who want a piece of the action.
Review:
A brilliant upstairs-downstairs portrait of the working life of a restaurant, with customers happily oblivious to the turmoil in the kitchen and the pressures on the management. A large number of characters are finely sketched as in Altman's best films, with which this merits comparison in all but its technical shortcomings (framing very variable, boom in shot at one point - clearly a tight schedule).