Dinner Rush
by Bob Giraldi
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Actor: Alex Corrado, Danny Aiello, Edoardo Ballerini, Mike Mc Glone, Vivian WuDirector: Bob Giraldi
Brand: New Line Home Video
Cinematographer: Tim Ives
Other Contributor: Alexander Lasarenko
Producer: Phil Suarez
Producer: Louis Di Giaimo
Producer: Patti Greaney
Writer: Brian Kalata
Writer: Rik Shaughnessy
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 99 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2010-09-07
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Model: N6105
Studio: New Line Home Video
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- During the course of one frenzied evening, a restaurant owner and bookmaker deals with a potential hostile takeover, a snooty critic, and his attraction to his dead partner's widow. Danny Aiello and John Corbett bring the behind-the-scenes drama of a NYC Italian restaurant to life through an exciting tale of gangsters and gourmet food.Running Time: 99 min. Format: DVD MOVIE Genre:?DRAMA
DVD Reviews of Dinner Rush
DVD Review: When did eating dinner become a Broadway show?
Summary: 4 Stars
"Dinner Rush" is about one night at a fancy Italian restaurant in TriBeCa, although the prologue sets the stage for the proceedings when an old man is gunned down by gangsters. This film might be about food, but it is also about life and death, although clearly in this case they are pretty much the same thing. The restaurant in question is owned by Louis Cropa (Danny Aiello), while the superstar chef is his son, Udo (Edoardo Ballerini), and the two having been butting heads over the menu for quite some time. The place is apparently booked solid, with people waiting in line for a table, but Lou dispairs over the nuovo cuisine and wants something that tastes good and fills him up. The good news is that back in the kitchen a guy named Duncan (Kirk Acevedo) can make the "salsiccia e peproni" that Lou loves, but the bad news is Duncan cannot stop gambling.
Duncan's gambling puts the restaurant at risk. Lou is also a bookie and while he has cut Duncan off the kid has gone and found another bookie: the same one who had Lou's friend gunned down at the start of the movie. The competition (Mike McGlone)has shown up, sat down at a prime table, and informed Lou that they are not leaving until they have a partnership. Lou is not thrilled by the idea. Meanwhile, the restaurant is having a very busy night and Udo has already started firing people in the kitchen. This is going to be a long night.
Among those trying to eat in peace are a snobby art gallery owner (Mark Margolis) who is entertaining a visiting Greek artist and miffed that he had to wait 45 minutes for his table and a restaurant critic (Sandra Bernhard) who shows up in a disguise that fools no one. Watching the proceedings at the bar with a wry sense of detachment is Ken (John Corbett), where the bar tender apparently knows everything about anything. The waitress Marti (Summer Phoenix) and the maitresse 'd Nicole (Vivian Wu) are trying to keep everybody happy, but things are slowly building to a climax.
Aiello's character is the calm center of the storm and the question is how strong he really is when push comes to shove. Lou might seem like a gangster, but all he has his his restaurant, his book, his son and his friends. As he admits at one point, he has never held a real gun in his life, but in all that time nobody ever got killed. Now those days are over and his insistence that he will never give up the restaurant rings hollow.
Director Bob Giraldi made "Dinner Rush" in 21 days, but he had a big advantage since it was shot at his own restaurant, Gigino's. It has the look of a Robert Altman theme, but which much more of a sense of warmth and intimacy. He also covers the preparation of the meals in the kitchen with as much care and consideration as he gives his characters. Of course, once you find out that this film was shot in Giraldi's restaurant you are tempted to rethink "Dinner Rush" as a long commercial for the place. But getting to eat some of the food we see prepared and consumed in this film is not the worst of all possible fates and a good reason to put "Dinner Rush" on the menu with "Eat Drink Man Woman," "Like Water for Chocolate," "Babette's Feast" and other films that make you hungry, even if it does belong more with the appetizers than the entrées.
Description of Dinner Rush
During the course of one frenzied evening, a restaurant owner and bookmaker deals with a potential hostile takeover, a snooty critic, and his attraction to his dead partner's widow. Danny Aiello and John Corbett bring the behind-the-scenes drama of a NYC Italian restaurant to life through an exciting tale of gangsters and gourmet food.Dinner Rush is gourmet cinema, served with a generous helping of culinary panache. After countless commercials, music videos (including Michael Jackson's "Beat It"), and a few obscure features, director and restaurateur Bob Giraldi casts his own New York eatery as a TriBeCa hot spot where the owner (Danny Aiello) presides over a busy night of fine dining and mob entanglements. He's been a bookmaker for 25 years but he's going legit; his son (Edoardo Ballerini) is a nuovo cuisine genius, eager to inherit the business; the sous-chef (Kirk Acevedo) is deeply in debt to mafia thugs; an art-dealer snob (Mark Margolis) is antagonizing his waitress (Summer Phoenix); a charming stranger (John Corbett) harbors a climactic surprise; and a powerful food critic (Sandra Bernhard) is ready to pounce on any wrong move. In perfect control of this bustling environment, Giraldi directs like a great chef cooks: with Altmanesque delicacy, confident that every ingredient is vital to the success of his creation. It's utterly delicious. --Jeff Shannon
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