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Can't believe a lot of people never heard of this one.
Will watch anything Danny Aiello is in. He's just too cool.
Anyone in the restaurant business will really appreciate how true to life the "behind the scenes" it is.
Everyone I loaned my DVD to went out and bought their own copy...
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I'd like to eat at that restaurant. I'd like to be a part of the experience, but I'd be careful to use the facilities early on. Excellent cast, and a well balance of food preparation and annoying customers. Buy it for someone who likes good dialogue.
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'Dinner Rush' is part mob movie, part character study and part restaurant reality show. It's not a very action packed film nor does it have a complicated plot, but the ride through is interesting and worth the hour and a half running time. The performances are real and there are a few surprises along the way. Great cast, good pacing and....you can almost smell the food!
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We never get tired of watching this movie. This is the 3rd copy purchased for friends and family.
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Dinner Rush (2000) is a movie whose target audience is a micro-niche
of food-obsessed enthusiasts. This is the case as the entire movie
unfolds in a trendy restaurant, in New York, with a following that
hinges on the opinions printed in the major newspapers by big name
food critics.
Of course, those critics opinions are discounted over 90 minutes,
such as by the conflict of interest or impartiality with the cook
(a physical relationhip between that cook and the critic is
admitted), a lack of continuation of culinary tradition, and by the
bizarre items on the menu.
Danny Aiello does a fine job, in his role as th restaurant's elder
owner and businessman, with another foot in the bookie businesses.
The "muscle" in the form of Alex Corrado (reminiscent by size of
Paul Vario from This Thing of Ours), is credible, as well.
Edoardo Ballerini, as the trendy chef, is certainly well played, as
was the action, and the charm of Summer Phoenix, playing a waitress.
Equally charismatic, is Jamie Harris, as a barman ( seen in Made
Men, with Jim Belushi coincidentally, for example.)
There's quite a bit of effort spent in showing gambling as a
potential addiction and psychological conundrum.
In sum, the movie is 95% style, revolving around the sums of money
that are involved for aspects that are highly socially set,
subjective, are non-intellectual, such as taste buds, or paintings
and other visual art works.
Other stylish aspects are the inter-personal charm of the waiters,
bartenders, with an exception being the hard physical effort and
stamina required among the cooks in the kitchen, in between bizarre
and spontaneous, haphazard urges for one night stands by the
restaurant staff, in a hectic, chaotic manner, among themselves, etc.
If stylish movies about eateries is your gig, then this work may be
palatable.
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