Possibly the inspiration for The Bear. Rick Shaughnessy and Brian Kalata have set the film over one night in a busy Tribeca Italian restaurant (that's below the Village and near the East River). Owner Danny Aiello is dealing with the murder of partner by rival bookies. His son Edoardo Bellerini wants to run it not just cook. (Funnily enough his dad thinks the food poncey and not good like the old days.) Two gangsters are trying to muscle in; the sous chef is in debt to them. There's a pretentious art critic, and an unpleasant food critic, a detective and a loner at the bar. It all wraps together very satisfyingly.
Mostly unknown cast. Kirk Acevedo, Ajay Naidu, Vivian Wu, Polly Draper, Jamie Harris (bartender), Alex Corrado, Michael McGlone, John Corbett, Lexie Spurduto, Sandra Bernhard.
Photographed by Tim Ives (Fosse / Verdun, Girls, How To Make It in America), edited by Allyson C Johnson, who together catch well the furious pace of the large and busy kitchen, chefs and waiting staff, perhaps even better than Boiling Point did.
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| Yeah - we thought it was pretentious too |
Another one that we'd last watched so long ago it was like seeing it for the first time.
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