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Big Night

1996, Movie, R, 107 mins

BIG NIGHT
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Set vaguely in the early '60s, this tale of immigrant brothers Primo (Tony Shalhoub) and Secondo (Stanley Tucci), and the fancy dinner for Louis Prima they hope will save their failing restaurant, is just the kind of "little movie" reviewers overpraise. Why? Because they're sick to death of bloated star vehicles and spine-rattling action pictures. Codirected by Tucci and Campbell Scott, it's an actor's picture in the best and worst senses of the term: Performance is everythi... read more leave a comment
Year: 1996
Rated R

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Cast
Stanley Tucci: Secondo
Tony Shalhoub: Primo
Isabella Rossellini: Gabriella
Ian Holm: Pascal
Minnie Driver: Phyllis
Marc Anthony: Cristiano

 

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Monk Star Reunites with an Old Pal

The way Tony Shalhoub (who netted his fourth Emmy nod this week) and Stanley Tucci mercilessly rag on each other, it's easy to mistake them for family. But even though they played a pair of mismatched siblings in Tucci's delectable 1996 comedy Big Night, they're not related (although Shalhoub does affectionately refer to Tucci as "brother"). The two character actors forged a tight friendship back in 1989 at the Yale Repertory Theater, and have ever since gone out of their way to work together. Tucci has already cast his buddy in Big Night and read more

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