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Sep 27, 1996 · 5 min read. “Big Night” is one of the great food movies, and yet it is so much more. It is about food not as a subject but as a language–the language by which one can speak to gods, can create, can seduce, can aspire to perfection. There is a moment in the movie when a timpano is sliced open, and the audience sighs with simple delight.
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Big Night. Big Night is a 1996 American comedy-drama film co-directed by Campbell Scott and Stanley Tucci. [3] Set in the 1950s on the Jersey Shore, the film follows two Italian immigrant brothers, played by Tucci and Tony Shalhoub, as they host an evening of free food at their restaurant in an effort to allow it to gain greater exposure.
Primo and Secondo are two brothers who have emigrated from Italy to open an Italian restaurant in America. Primo is the irascible and gifted chef, brilliant in his culinary genius, but determined not to squander his talent on making the routine dishes that customers expect. Secondo is the smooth front-man, trying to keep the restaurant ...
Sep 20, 1996 · Sept. 20, 1996 12 AM PT. TIMES FILM CRITIC. As delicately and deliciously prepared as the dishes it features, “Big Night” is a lyric to the love of food, family and persuasive acting. Written ...
Big Night: Directed by Campbell Scott, Stanley Tucci. With Marc Anthony, Tony Shalhoub, Stanley Tucci, Larry Block. New Jersey, 1950s. Two brothers run an Italian restaurant.
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- Drama, Romance
- Campbell Scott, Stanley Tucci
- 1996-09-20
Sep 15, 1996 · From 1996: Terrence Rafferty reviews “Big Night,” a comic drama about two brothers running a failing Italian restaurant, directed by Campbell Scott and Stanley Tucci and starring Tucci, Tony ...
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Sep 20, 1996 · Big Night is a 1996 American comedy-drama film co-directed by Campbell Scott and Stanley Tucci. Set in the 1950s on the Jersey Shore, the film follows two Italian immigrant brothers, played by Tucci and Tony Shalhoub, as they host an evening of free food at their restaurant in an effort to allow it to gain greater exposure.
