Dinner Rush | 
 enlarge | Director: Bob Giraldi
Actors: Danny Aiello, Edoardo Ballerini, John Rothman, Frank Bongiorno, Lexie Sperduto
Studio: New Line Home Video
Category: DVD
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Rating:  62 reviews
Sales Rank: 13603
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Original Language)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Running Time: 99 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.1 x 0.6
MPN: 794043610523
ISBN: 0780640896
UPC: 794043610523
EAN: 9780780640894
ASIN: B00007G1YP
Theatrical Release Date: 2002
Release Date: January 21, 2003
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Product Description
A son's criminal involvement causes chaos at his father's popular Italian restaurant.
Amazon.com
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
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 Great Foodie movie May 29, 2010
N Schechter (Vernon Hills, IL USA)
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.
Fantastic Movie May 3, 2010
Mina Moncur (NY, NY)
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:)
 Dinner Rush December 15, 2009
Susan P. Zuiker Lewis (Los Angeles, CA, USA)
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.
Must see! December 5, 2009
Bill Young (UP)
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 in tune with the pace of the film and the characters, until...
recommended November 6, 2009
Matthew Kuemmerlein (Kansas City, MO)
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 of that experience, aside from the mafia theme, maybe. Most of the enjoyment comes from the interactions among the wide variety of characters, but the movie has a solid plot, is tightly edited, and the twist at the end is a good one.
The owner of Gigino's, Louis Cropa, is coping with the recent murder of his partner Enrico at the hands of two low-level mobsters from Queens. When the mobsters arrive at Gigino's one busy evening to forcibly offer their `partnership' to Louis, a revenge story unfolds together with sub-plots, including the rivalry of the head chef, Louis's son Udo, and the sous chef, the impulsive Duncan, in cuisine and in women, an artist waitress waiting on the table of a snobby gallery owner feting artists who are successful, a picky food critic unhappy with her table, and a bland gentleman hanging out at the bar, who turns out to be more than he seems. Each part of the restaurant has its own atmosphere, and the film shows well the contrast between the feverish work on the part of the chefs and the relaxation of the guests, how a true chef can never serve bad food, no matter how much he dislikes who will eat it, and the random difficulties that arise on a busy night (power outage, etc.).
The editing is great, as the film is engaging to the last minute, and never slackens. The film mostly takes place in the restaurant (or `eatery' as it is called) uninterruptedly over one evening, and the action consists mainly of guests talking to servers, servers talking to chefs, chefs talking to guests (as in one funny scene when a heavy customer marches into the kitchen to threaten a chef) but the characters are established so well and so quickly by the actors, that they seems like real people, and they have chemistry in every scene.
Another reviewer described the film as insubstantial but very, very tasty, like linguini in cream sauce, and that's a good assessment. Dinner Rush could be the pilot episode of a good television series. Still, it's entertaining and funny. What more do you want from a movie?
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