1996 · comedy · drama · indie
Big Night
Directed by Campbell Scott, Stanley Tucci1h 49m1996
Primo and Secondo, two immigrant brothers, pin their hopes on a banquet honoring Louis Prima to save their struggling restaurant.
Our read: Big Night (1996) reads as a warm, kinetic, grounded comedy · drama · indie entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, measured comedy / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, tender.
- warm
- brisk
- tender
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