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Eat This New York

2004, Movie, NR, 82 mins

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Filmmaker Andrew Rossi and co-director Kate Novack open their entertaining documentary about the odds against making it in the New York City restaurant business with three bewildering facts: There are currently 18,000 restaurants in NYC; 1,000 new ones open annually; four out five of these new eateries fail within five years. And yet despite these overwhelming odds, wide-eyed idealists like transplanted Midwesterners John McCormick and Billy Phelps, best friends from Minnesot... read more leave a comment
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