City Island is a movie made in 2009, which came out in April of 2010, starting Emmy Nominated Andy Garcia and Julianna Margulies as a married couple seemingly stuck in a rut. Their entire family, including themselves, can not face the truth. Vince Rizzo, Garcia's character, is a corrections officer and longs to be a big star. This revelation is a secret he wants to keep from his family and hides his weekly acting classes as best he can.
This dark family comedy won the coveted audience award at the 2009 famed Tribeca Film Festival where most films go to generate a buzz which in turn brings more people out to view the film when it hits the theaters. This was its first screening and critics and movie-goers both enjoyed the hilarity that came out of this charming yet smart film about the lengths families will go to in order hide the truth from one another.
Everyone in this dysfunctional family unit is hiding something from the rest of the family, a large secret that they believe would destroy their parents and the way everyone things about them. Garcia, the father of this film and the star of the very popular Ocean's movie franchises, is hiding the fact that he desperately wants to become an actor. Garcia's wife, performed perfectly by Margulies of televisions The Good Wife, hides her smoking and is often sneaking around trying to catch Garcia's character in bed with another woman, something she won't find.
Other family members include a daughter who is supposed to be attending collage but instead is a stripper. This character is performed by Dominik Garca-Lorido of the Lost City. The Rizzo's young, teenage son's performance is done by Ezra Miller of television's Californication and he is trying to keep his secret love and fetish regarding the family's 300 pound neighbor. The performance of the drama coach of the elder Rizzo is done by Emmy Award Winner Alan Arkin from Little Miss Sunshine. He, too, has several secrets he's keeping from the rest of those on screen.
When creating a story, a screenwriter needs to ask themselves 'why today'? What is so special about this day or this time in the family's life that makes a movie interesting. Vince Rizzo answers that question by his reaction to an acting exercises. Rizzo decides to bring home his long-lost son which he located in the prison he works at. The fact that the elder Rizzo found his long lost son in the prison he works at as a corrections officer is so much change and a lie he can't cover up, he bring him home to meet the family.
Another of the non-family members to show up and wreck havoc on the family, especially the elder Rizzo, is his acting partner, Emily Mortimer who played in last years Shutter Island. Garcia and Mortimer have good onscreen chemistry, but the best chemistry goes to Garcia and Margulies. Their onscreen banter as a husband and wife in the New York area is hilarity and 'right on' in almost all cases. They banter back and forth with miscommunications and love and hate mixed for hilarity.
The movie is named for an actual place; a small town on the outskirts of the Bronx's and it is a community deep with family traditions. Grandparents and parents pass down their homes to the children to live in when they no longer can care for them. There are virtually no outsiders in this tiny seaside community. In its heyday, this community was a bustling port for fisherman. Barely anyone knows it exists except for some people in Manhattan and maybe a few in the Bronx, however, that is changing.
Written and directed by Raymond De Felitta from Two Family House, the project was a labor of love. Andy Garcia is one of the producers, co-producers and executives producers attached to this film. August 24, 2010 is the DVD and Blu-Ray release date of City Island. - 40731
This dark family comedy won the coveted audience award at the 2009 famed Tribeca Film Festival where most films go to generate a buzz which in turn brings more people out to view the film when it hits the theaters. This was its first screening and critics and movie-goers both enjoyed the hilarity that came out of this charming yet smart film about the lengths families will go to in order hide the truth from one another.
Everyone in this dysfunctional family unit is hiding something from the rest of the family, a large secret that they believe would destroy their parents and the way everyone things about them. Garcia, the father of this film and the star of the very popular Ocean's movie franchises, is hiding the fact that he desperately wants to become an actor. Garcia's wife, performed perfectly by Margulies of televisions The Good Wife, hides her smoking and is often sneaking around trying to catch Garcia's character in bed with another woman, something she won't find.
Other family members include a daughter who is supposed to be attending collage but instead is a stripper. This character is performed by Dominik Garca-Lorido of the Lost City. The Rizzo's young, teenage son's performance is done by Ezra Miller of television's Californication and he is trying to keep his secret love and fetish regarding the family's 300 pound neighbor. The performance of the drama coach of the elder Rizzo is done by Emmy Award Winner Alan Arkin from Little Miss Sunshine. He, too, has several secrets he's keeping from the rest of those on screen.
When creating a story, a screenwriter needs to ask themselves 'why today'? What is so special about this day or this time in the family's life that makes a movie interesting. Vince Rizzo answers that question by his reaction to an acting exercises. Rizzo decides to bring home his long-lost son which he located in the prison he works at. The fact that the elder Rizzo found his long lost son in the prison he works at as a corrections officer is so much change and a lie he can't cover up, he bring him home to meet the family.
Another of the non-family members to show up and wreck havoc on the family, especially the elder Rizzo, is his acting partner, Emily Mortimer who played in last years Shutter Island. Garcia and Mortimer have good onscreen chemistry, but the best chemistry goes to Garcia and Margulies. Their onscreen banter as a husband and wife in the New York area is hilarity and 'right on' in almost all cases. They banter back and forth with miscommunications and love and hate mixed for hilarity.
The movie is named for an actual place; a small town on the outskirts of the Bronx's and it is a community deep with family traditions. Grandparents and parents pass down their homes to the children to live in when they no longer can care for them. There are virtually no outsiders in this tiny seaside community. In its heyday, this community was a bustling port for fisherman. Barely anyone knows it exists except for some people in Manhattan and maybe a few in the Bronx, however, that is changing.
Written and directed by Raymond De Felitta from Two Family House, the project was a labor of love. Andy Garcia is one of the producers, co-producers and executives producers attached to this film. August 24, 2010 is the DVD and Blu-Ray release date of City Island. - 40731
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