City Island German Comedy Movie 2009
Cast And Crew
Cast : George Aloi ,Sharon Angela ,Alan Arkin ,Vernon Campbell ,
Lora Chio ,Joseph Cintron ,Curtiss Cook ,Yevgeniy Dekhtyar ,
Paul Diomede ,Marshall Efron ,John Farrer
Writer (WGA): Raymond De Felitta
Director : Raymond de Felitta
Date Opens 06 Janvier 2010
Genre : Comedy
Language: English
Runtime: Germany:100 min
City Island English Film Plot :
Un maton réalise que le fils de la femme qu'il aime en secret est incarcéré dans la prison où il travaille. Il va alors tenter par tous les moyens de se rapprocher de lui, ce qui va amener à des situations burlesques. Watch online Movie Trailer free City Island German film.The film Directed by Raymond de Felitta .
City Island English film Synopsis :
Meet the Rizzos, a family that might get along a lot better if only they could tell each other the truth. Dad Vince is the worst offender. But since the prison guard won't even admit that poker night is in fact acting class, how's he ever going to explain about his illegitimate son? His daughter works as a stripper when she's supposed to be in college, while young Vinnie Jr has a secret sexual fetish that involves a 24-hour webcam and the family's 300-pound neighbour. Vince's wife Joyce is the family's rock, but it's been a year since she enjoyed intimacy with her husband, and it's no surprise she thinks poker night spells A-F-F-A-I-R. When former prisoner Tony enters the Rizzos' lives, Joyce begins to suspect that the handsome young Tony isn't who Vince says he is. City Island is a funny, touching and smart family tale about the secrets of the past catching up with the lies of the present, and accepting that nobody's perfect - least of all your loved ones.
City Island Hollywood movie Review :
Honestly, I'm not a huge Andy Garcia fan. Some of his personal right wing political statements have turned me off and I usually find Andy Garcia (as an actor) playing Andy Garcia. But in City Island, wow. I guess this is what you would call a command performance. He's extremely believable and lovable as a sort of dim-witted (in a Rocky Balboa sort of way) prison guard who secretly takes acting classes and develops a friendship with a young woman while also adopting a convicted felon who just so happens to be his secret long lost son, while trying to keep all of these life's complications from his tough Bronx wife. The sub-plots involving his daughter being a stripper and his son having a fetish for overweight women are admittedly a little bizarre, but Andy Garcia's performance as the gentle soul just trying to do right in the world keeps this WoodyAllenesque soap opera entertaining as all hell.
I think this is the only Andy Garcia movie that I ever really liked, and I have to admit it even brought a tear to my eye. I don't know if City Island will ever get the credit it deserves, but in my opinion Andy Garcia's performance in City Island is the stuff that Oscars are made of.
Just saw this movie, and I think it's very good. It's started in the middle of some middle-class family, where nothing ever happened. Father has no education, wife is a office worker, and two boring children. But few minutes later I just can't stop. Father somehow became actor, his wife try to cheat on him with his unknown son, and children is no better than parents.
Characters are true, and I almost knew some of them in real life. They fun or sad, good or bad, they motivation is understandable and I wanted them to be happy. And they learned self and each other and them gave ,e good receipt to make my life happier - talk to each another.
Just off the Bronx, in Long Island Sound, is a spit of land called City Island. It's an obscure place, even to New Yorkers, which probably explains how it retains the look of a quaint New England fishing village despite being part of the biggest city in America.
The movie called City Island is set there, though it could have been called anything and set anywhere. Written and directed by Raymond De Felitta, it's a merry comedy about one of those quarrelsome Italian-American families where everybody fights a lot but ultimately loves one another. In real life, I find relationships with loud, argumentative people exhausting. In the movies, though, they can be a lot of fun to watch.
There are four people in the Rizzo family, each with a handful of secrets ranging from deep and dark to shallow and merely opaque. The patriarch, Vince (Andy Garcia), is a prison guard who's been taking acting classes in the hopes of becoming a movie star; he keeps it hidden from his wife, Joyce (Julianna Margulies), because he assumes she'd think it was a waste of time. Their teenage son, Vinnie (Ezra Miller), is developing a fetish for morbidly obese women, including the one across the street. His older sister, Vivian (Dominik Garcia-Lorido, Andy Garcia's real daughter), supposedly away at college, is working part-time as a stripper. Everyone is a smoker, and everyone hides it from everyone else. Vince will be poking his head through the upstairs bathroom's skylight to catch a few puffs while his son is 30 feet away doing the same thing on the balcony, each out of the other's view.
Into this household comes Tony (Steven Strait), a young ex-con in need of a fresh start, whom Vince invites to stay in the unfinished boathouse in exchange for helping Vince finish it. In the grand tradition of TV sitcoms since time immemorial (OK, just since the '50s), Vince doesn't tell Joyce he's bringing the guy home, and won't tell her why after he does. In fact, the specter of sitcoms is raised near the end, too -- I'm thinking Three's Company, specifically -- when the film's comedically dizzying climax involves multiple misinterpretations and wrong impressions, with all the secrets coming out at once.
This is all nicely choreographed by De Felitta (who also made the similar Two-Family House), though it does require some characters to behave more dumbly than is plausible. For example, Vince embarks on a friendship with a fellow acting student (Emily Mortimer) that could very reasonably be misconstrued by Joyce as an affair. It involves secrecy, mysterious phone calls, and alibis. Yet when Joyce accuses him, Vince is completely surprised, having never considered that his furtive behavior might arouse suspicion. Even by the usual standards of comedy, which assert that husbands are always clueless about their wives' feelings, this is pretty obtuse.
But hey, whaddaya want? Underneath the intentionally convoluted plot, this is a pretty simple comedy with simple goals: make us laugh, make us leave the theater smiling. The cast members (including Alan Arkin as Vince's acting coach) are energetic and funny, the tempo upbeat, the dialogue sparkling. See it with someone you love who drives you crazy.
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