Top billed cast

1. 

   Minnie Driver

   Phyllis

2. 

   Ian Holm

   Pascal

3. 

   Isabella Rossellini

   Gabriella

4. 

   Tony Shalhoub

   Primo

5. 

   Stanley Tucci

   Secondo

6. 

   Caroline Aaron

   Woman in Restaurant

7. 

   Marc Anthony

   Cristiano

8. 

   Allison Janney

   Ann

9. 

   Larry Block

   Man in Restaurant

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Reviews

A review by Filipe Manuel Neto

Written by Filipe Manuel Neto on 2024-01-16

**A forgotten film about naive, deeply believable and human people.**

There are certain films where everything depends on the actors' performance, and this is one of them. The dialogues are truly rich, the development of the characters and the ways they interact is highly valued, the plot is reduced to the simplest it can be and almost everything happens in the limited space of the Italian restaurant. It looks like a play, and that even leads me to believe that the film could be an adaptation of a play.

Such simplicity and minimalism obviously mean that there was no significant financial...read the rest

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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$4,100,000.00

Revenue
$12,000,000.00

Keywords

• immigrant
• new jersey
• jazz
• restaurant
• food
• car salesman
• italian restaurant
• feast
• 1950s
• italian cuisine