Dinner Rush

Dinner Rush
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item number:  35RCV
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DVD Details

  • Rated: Not Rated
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 39 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: January 21, 2003
  • Originally Released: 2001
  • Label: New Line Home Video

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Entertainment Reviews:

Certified Fresh91%

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 4,130
Rating: 4/5 -- This is an unusually patient and composed feature - it's solidly scripted, it knows where it's going and arrives there with a minimum of fuss. Full Review
RTÉ (Ireland)
Feb 13, 2003
Fiery energy, swift, character-driven chitchat and a tough, upbeat sense of how the world works.
L.A. Weekly
Jan 20, 2003
Rating: 3/4 -- Set in a downtown restaurant, this is a small, well-acted (particularly by Danny Aiello) quintessentially New York film that recalls indie movies of the 1980s. Full Review
EmanuelLevy.Com
Jun 20, 2006
Rating: 4/5 -- It's as insubstantial as a plate of linguini, but very, very tasty. Full Review
BBC.com
Mar 18, 2002
Rating: 3/4 -- A genre film, but it tries to tell a story from a different angle - not through tough guys and excessive violence but through a character-driven drama with several different perspectives. Full Review
Offoffoff
Mar 11, 2003
...The food-preparation scenes are vividly depicted....A tasty work film crammed with quotidian virtuosity...
Sight and Sound
Apr 1, 2002
It's not Big Night, but there's much worth tasting here.
Seattle Times
Dec 21, 2001

Product Description:

Bob Giraldi, award-winning director of commercials and music videos (Michael Jackson's "Beat It"), uses his own restaurant--Gigino's Trattoria--as the starting point for his debut feature, DINNER RUSH. The film is about one lively night at a trendy restaurant in the TriBeCa area of New York City. Louis (Danny Aiello) is an aging bookie and restauranter who's bemoaning the transformation of Gigino's from a down-to-earth, mom-and-pop Italian eatery to a pretentious, see-and-be-seen establishment. Louis's talented son, Udo (Edoardo Ballerini), is an ambitious star chef who wants to take over the restaurant because he claims his food and his style are responsible for the success of the business. To make matters worse, Louis is confronted by a pair of thugs known as Black and Blue who murdered his partner and now want to take over his place. Mark Margolis is hilarious as the droll art critic and nightmare customer, Fitzgerald. Summer Phoenix plays a smart-talking waitress. And topping off the colorful cast is Sandra Bernhard who plays a snotty food critic.

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  • UPC: 794043610523
  • Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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