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BIG NIGHT
March 28, 2014  | By David Bianculli

TCM, 10:00 p.m. ET

 

If you’ve never seen this 1996 movie about a couple of brothers who manage an Italian restaurant, please do. It’s a brilliant movie – and its quiet climax is one of the best cinematic real-time scenes since the end of Shane. Stanley Tucci stars, co-wrote and co-directed, Tony Shalhoub plays his temperamental sibling, and we see them on one night when an influential guest is coming whose response to their special menu may make or break their restaurant. The food is tantalizingly rich, and so is the supporting cast: Ian Holm, Minnie Driver, Allison Janney and Isabella Rossellini.

 
 
 
 
 
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