Big Night | 
| Director: Scott, Campbell
Actors: Caroline Aaron, Marc Anthony, Peter Appel, Andre Belgrader, Larry Block
Studio: Sony Pictures
Category: DVD
List Price: $14.94
Buy New: $6.98
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Rating:  87 reviews
Sales Rank: 3179
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dvd, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
DVD Layers: 1
DVD Sides: 1
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 107 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.3 x 0.3
MPN: 043396810198
ISBN: 0767802535
UPC: 043396810198
EAN: 9780767802536
ASIN: 0767802535
Theatrical Release Date: September 20, 1996
Release Date: April 7, 1998
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Critics tripped all over their big feet to praise Big Night, and in doing so performed a grave disservice to this fine little film. They fooled audiences into believing it was a "super movie" instead of a home movie buoyed by friends and family. Consequently, many viewers were disappointed. Big Night is an intimate look at the immigrant struggle to attain the American Dream, set in New Jersey in the 1950s. Its disproportionate success gave co-directors Stanley Tucci and Campbell Scott, who also star in the picture, the green light to follow up with a smug, unsuccessful second venture called The Imposters. Tucci wrote Big Night with his cousin Joseph Tropiano, and they based the story on the experience of growing up in a large, proud Italian family. The brothers in Big Night--chef Primo (Tony Shalhoub) and businessman Secondo (Tucci)--have come to New Jersey to open a bistro named The Paradise that serves the finest in traditional, authentic Italian cuisine. Their every move is foiled by rival restaurant Pascal's, which serves mile-high servings of spaghetti and meatballs and flasks of bad Chianti at exorbitant prices. Primo is disgusted by the fact that Americans want cheap pasta instead of risotto, so Secondo hatches a plan to boost business: rumor has it bandleader Louis Prima is travelling through and will dine at The Paradise that very night. Secondo gambles to bring the finest dinner ever cooked--at the risk of losing his shirt and being reduced to exile to the old country with his tail between his legs. Big Night is a film that will easily invite comparisons to other "food" fare like Babette's Feast and Eat Drink Man Woman but, though Tucci insists his story is "about the struggle between art and commerce and the risk of staying true to yourself," the media refused to let it stay a small, comparative work. The movie, and the buzz around it, became a parable for the essence of the film itself: art vs. commerce. --Paula Nechak
Product Description
THE STORY OF TWO ITALIAN BROTHERS WHOSE SUPERB RESTAURANT IS ON THE VERGE OF BANKRUPTCY. THEIR ONLY CHANCE IS TO RISK EVERYTHING THEY OWN ON ONE BIG NIGHT THAT WILL MAKE OR BREAK THEM.
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 LET'S JUST EAT !!! May 15, 2009
Roberto Carreras
I love FOOD MOVIES in general and I own some of them, this is my most recent discovery and I enjoyed it a lot.
This is not the typical "food" movie that probably we are used to watch.
Honestly I didn't liked Marc Anthony or whoever the hell he is . . .
I don't really care for him at all, this movie would've been even better without him.
On My Best 10 list February 24, 2009
Yann Ricard (Santa Barbara, CA USA)
I first saw this film when it was first released, over ten years ago. I have watched it several times since, and it keeps getting better every time. It is so sparse, and yet so full. So much is left unsaid, and yet deeply felt. It is the portrayal of this relationship between two brothers of completely different temperament, but who deeply care about each other, and united by a dream that binds them, which is most moving. The very last scene, when they commune around the simplest and most symbolic of foods, with not a word (but a wonderful soundtrack of noises that heighten the silence) is a masterpiece of understatement.
Big Night is, and will remain, one of the ten and probably five best movies I have ever seen.
Y.
 BIG FUN! January 8, 2009
E. Sunseri (Portland, OR)
This is a fun movie. Not only does it make you hungry watching it, it is fun to watch the stars of today back in the "olden days" :) GO MONK!
FIne acting from a first rate cast December 8, 2008
C. Bayard (Maplewood, NJ 07040)
This is not a big flashy movie but it is full of great actors doing their best work. The performances are real and well rounded. You never catch any of them "acting". They all live in the scene.
superb food movie July 14, 2008
A. J. Van Bork (the netherlands)
subtle, touching, it oozes love of good (italian) food.
the acting was out of this world.
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