Dinner Rush
 | Directed by Bob Giraldi Starring: Danny Aiello, Edoardo Ballerini, John Rothman, Frank Bongiorno, Lexie Sperduto New Line Home Video, 2002, DVD Customer Rating: 62 reviews Recommend |
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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.
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
Title: Dinner Rush
Sales Rank: 13658 in DVD
Actor: Danny Aiello, Edoardo Ballerini, John Rothman, Frank Bongiorno, Lexie Sperduto
Director: Bob Giraldi
Studio: New Line Home Video, 2003-01-21, Theatrical Release: 2002
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC, Acpect Ratio 1.33:1
Languages: English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Original Language)
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Region Code: 1
Running Time: 99 minutes
Item Dimensions: 0.25 pounds
Package Dimensions: 7.5 x 5.1 x 0.6 inches, 0.25 pounds
- Great Foodie movie
- Dinner rush is a good flick, period. But when a movie is centered around a restaurant, all foodies will forgive anything about the plot, i.e. stereotype, cliches, etc. More reviews
- Fantastic Movie
- I've wanted this movie for a long time so when I saw it on IFC I bought it! It is well acted with a plot twist which is satisfying to me. I can't wait to get it and watch it 309757020 times:)… More reviews
- Dinner Rush
- Excellent performance by Danny Aiello - interesting film, with good character development by all actors/actresses.
Twist at end reminded me of W. Somerset Maugham's writings.
AND it is a Mafia film without the blood and gore.… More reviews
- Must see!
- I call this a slice of life film. The film depicts the lives of the characters as they each deal with emotions and the consequences of the day. The setting is a restaurant where the film moves from one set of characters to the next. Is there a plot? No, it a piece of time that the viewer glimpses. As you watch the film you become… More reviews
- recommended
- Dinner Rush is a jazzy and upbeat movie that covers the bustle and drama of a trendy Tribeca Italian restaurant from all sides, with the clientele, the wait staff, the kitchen, and the management all under the same roof but in separate worlds. Anyone who has worked in an upscale restaurant will probably find this an accurate representation… More reviews
