Big Night

– Primo & Secondo, two immigrant brothers, pin their hopes on a banquet honoring Louis Prima to sa..

Type:
Movie
Rating:
7.30 / 10
Duration:
One Hour and 49 Minutes
Release Year:
1996
Big Night (1996)

Primo & Secondo, two immigrant brothers, pin their hopes on a banquet honoring Louis Prima to save their struggling restaurant.

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Producing Country:
USA
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Release Date:

20 Sep 1996

Language:

English, Italian

MPAA Content-Rating:
R – Restricted

Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian. Contains some adult material. Parents are urged to learn more about the film before taking their young children with them.

Director:

Campbell Scott, Stanley Tucci

Writer:

Stanley Tucci, Joseph Tropiano

Main Actors:

Marc Anthony, Tony Shalhoub, Stanley Tucci, Larry Block

Plot:

Primo and Secondo are two brothers who have emigrated from Italy to open an Italian restaurant in America. Primo is the irascible and gifted chef, brilliant in his culinary genius, but determined not to squander his talent on making the routine dishes that customers expect. Secondo is the smooth front-man, trying to keep the restaurant financially afloat, despite few patrons other than a poor artist who pays with his paintings. The owner of the nearby Pascal's restaurant, enormously successful (despite its mediocre fare), offers a solution - he will call his friend, a big-time jazz musician, to play a special benefit at their restaurant. Primo begins to prepare his masterpiece, a feast of a lifetime, for the brothers' big night...

Awards:

9 wins & 17 nominations.

Production:

Samuel Goldwyn Films

Ratings:
Internet Movie Database:
7.3/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
96%
Metacritic:
80%