Synopsis
Primo and Secondo, two immigrant brothers, pin their hopes on a banquet honoring Louis Prima to save their struggling restaurant.
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Cast
- Stanley TucciSecondo
- Tony ShalhoubPrimo
- Minnie DriverPhyllis
- Allison JanneyAnn
- Ian HolmPascal
- Isabella RosselliniGabriella
- Marc AnthonyCristiano
- Larry BlockMan in Restaurant
- Caroline AaronWoman in Restaurant
- Andre BelgraderStash
Recommendations
- 100
San Francisco Examiner
Big Night's beauty is the fact that it is about passion. - 100
Mr. Showbiz
It is one of the most beautifully staged American movies in a very long time. - 88
ReelViews
In addition to their deft skill with light drama, the directors understand well-placed humor, and throw just the right amount of comedy into the mix to make Big Night fun without turning it into an outright farce. - 88
USA Today
A robustly imaginative sleeper - 80
Film.com
It's so good, so jam-packed with delights, that it leaves you gorged -- and bemoaning the fatty glop that passes for moviemaking these days. - 80
Time
A movie that is both as real as food on the table and as hauntingly evanescent as its taste on one's tongue. - 80
Variety
This unlikely collaboration between actors Stanley Tucci and Campbell Scott is extremely well directed, making for a smartly made, delightfully acted period piece whose sensibility neatly straddles art films and the mainstream. - 80
Washington Post
It's the moviegoing equivalent of great eating.
