Stanley Tucci

Tony Shalhoub

Minnie Driver

Allison Janney

Ian Holm

Isabella Rossellini

Marc Anthony

Larry Block

Caroline Aaron

Andre Belgrader

Peter McRobbie

Liev Schreiber

Pasquale Cajano

Christine Tucci

Gene Canfield

Peter Appel

Jack O'Connell

Campbell Scott

Robert W. Castle

Susan Floyd

Dina Spybey-Waters

Seth Jones

Hélène Cardona

Ken Cheeseman

David Wenzel

Tina Bruno

Karen Shallo

Joseph Tropiano

Oliver Platt

Jonathan Filley

David Paul Kirkpatrick

Keith Samples

Jeffrey D. McDonald

David Stein

Neal Martz

Steve Buscemi

Ken Kelsch

Gary DeMichele

Ellen Lewis

Juliet Polcsa

Andrew Jackness

Suzy Elmiger

Lisa Katcher

Jill Footlick

John Clifford

G.A. Aguilar

Eliza Paley

Sylvia Menno

Dan Korintus

Kenton Jakub

Michael Barry

William Sarokin

Glenfield Payne

Margot Core

Steve Borne

Susan Raney

Drama

Romance

Big Night

Rysher Entertainment

United States of America

Filipe Manuel Neto

**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 investment on the production side. Cheap to make, with touches of indie cinema and quality personnel in the cast and crew, the film meets the necessary goals to entertain us pleasantly for some time, but it will never be unforgettable for anyone. In fact, it is quite forgotten nowadays, which I completely understand.

Technically, the film does everything without mistakes, but it doesn't take any risks: the cinematography doesn't bring anything new or bold moves, rather the regular average that is presented without a single error. In common, the soundtrack is perfectly forgettable and the scenarios, although good and perfectly credible, do not have any particular interest. Even the restaurant is banal, an average establishment without any kind of interest, where you go for the quality of the food and not exactly for the atmosphere.

The plot is very simple and works excellently: two brothers, Italian immigrants, have a restaurant that is about to close because they didn't know how to manage it and gain customers; This leads them to listen to the advice of the owner of a competing restaurant and invite singer Louis Prima to dinner in the hope of boosting the business. The brothers are, each in their own way, perfectly naive! If one is unable to understand that in a business like that, the customer is in charge and not the cook, the other decides to trust the advice of someone who had every reason to harm them. This makes them human, believable, and it is impossible not to suffer for them. The naivety is not just theirs: the character of Minnie Driver is also deeply naive in her own way, in the way she becomes romantically involved and allows herself to be deceived.

Stanley Tucci, intelligently, collaborated directly in writing the script and the result was one of the best works of his career, with the actor in a role that he tailored to his own abilities and qualities, without prejudice to his colleagues, to whom he gives the necessary space to showcase their talent. Thus, Tony Shalhoub also makes the film an authentic calling card, proving his qualities as an actor. In a more reserved position, we must also highlight the collaboration of Minnie Driver and Ian Holm, and also the special participation of Isabella Rossellini, who brightens the film with her occasional but very committed collaboration.

English

Italiano

Big Night (Theatrical Trailer)