Dinner Rush, the movie

[Rosie]

I wanted to recommend this movie. If you are familiar with restaurant kitchens and the "goings on" you will enjoy it. we found the movie entertaining. Anyone see it?

[=Mark]

I wanted to see it but it was yanked out of theaters before I got a chance.  Guess I'll wait for the DVD...

[franklanguage]

Hmm...I wonder if we should start a new thread about restaurant movies, but to tell you the truth, I've never seen all that many of them. I never saw "Who Is Killing The Great Chefs Of Europe?", for instance.

I did see "The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover", however, and I loved that one. My roommate at the time (whom I ditched), hated it, but liked "Henry, Portrait of a Serial Killer". [Note: both movies came out around the same time, and were both rated "X" (for different reasons, of course); this was before they introduced the "new" ratings including "NC-17".] Go figure.

(Edited by franklanguage at 12:57 am on Nov. 1, 2001)

[=Mark]

"Big Night" was fun.  Brought back memories of bad Italian food on the Jersey Shore!

[Kristian]

Another nice movie 'about' a restaurant is I Love You to Death (1990), starring Kevin Kline. At least there's a lot of food and cooking in it... :)

[yvonne johnson]

As it's coming up for Thanksgiving, my vote would be for Home for the Holidays, starring Holly Hunter. A very funny movie. A nice antidote to all those sugar-sweet, warm, fuzzy films.

I didn't realize it was directed by Jody Foster till now.

http://us.imdb.com/Title?0113321

[=Mark]

The long awaited (2+ years) DVD release of the movie Dinner Rush will be tomorrow, 21 Jan.

I'm psyched, missed it in the 3 1/2 hours it spent in theaters.

[Coop]

Where did that movie come from. I began watching it a couple of weeks ago on regular TV and got hooked. The ending surprised the hell out of me. Did it go straight to video. It is worth watching. Although I expected Steven Segal to appear at some point. It just looked at the start to be one of his disposable revenge flicks. Than it seemed to become a real movie and we couldn't look away.

[Suzanne F]

The restaurant where they shot some of it -- Gigino, in Tribeca (NYC) -- is really very, very good. I believe Phil Suarez is one of the owners.

[awbrig]

I just put it in my queue on Netflix...

[nightscotsman]

I saw it when it was in theaters here in Seattle for a month or two. Good movie - I was actually surprised by the ending. Loved Sandra Bernhard as the trampy restaurant critic and the asshole/snob patron with the two artists.

[awbrig]

if you like cooking movies we like

Big Night

Tortilla Soup

Good Fellas

Edited January 21, 2003 by awbrig (log)

[vengroff]

Great film. I may have to bundle up and walk over to Gigino's to celebrate. Or at least order in a pizza.

[=Mark]

Good Fellas as a cooking movie? I can see the recipe:

"Start with one large head, crack open..."

[malarkey]

this reminds me- I was at home sick so decided it was movie time. I rented a couple of food movies I hadn't seen in awhile (tampopo and eat drink man woman) and the woman at the video store told me "ohhh if you like food movies you'll like these... and gave me "The Scent of Green Papaya" and "The Vertical Ray of the Sun". While beautiful movies, they have nothing to do with food other than a cooking scene here and there. It made me wonder what the hell that clerk was thinking of...

[chantrelle]

I love you people, there aren't enough foodies in the world!

We're in agreement:

http://www.foodporn.com/movies/

[Suzanne F]

Just saw this photo caption in Nation's Restaurant News issue dated January 6, 2003:

Restaurateur Bert Cutino ... co-owner of Sardine Factory in Monterey, Calif., recently helped his friend, actor Danny Aiello,..., celebrate the opening of his new play, "Adult Entertainment."  Aiello just signed to do a TV series based on the movie "Dinner Rush," set in a New York restaurant. ...

Can anyone cross reference this with Variety?

Edited January 22, 2003 by Suzanne F (log)

[malarkey]

if you like cooking movies we like

Big Night

Tortilla Soup

Good Fellas

have you seen Eat Drink Man Woman? Tortilla Soup is the english language version of this film.

[awbrig]

saw Dinner Rush last night and again with maggiethecat and husband, Lou, tonight.

Absolutely awesome movie!

If you havent seen it, get it ASAP. All eGulleteers should see this movie.

[chantrelle]

I just got it in the mail from Netflix on Saturday...i thought i should wait until i make Italian food of some sort for dinner before we watch it though.

[=Mark]

My video store has it in stock, but it's been checked out all week.

[Lreda]

Sorry to say but this was one of the worst restaurant movies that I have ever seen. I fell asleep watching it and always look foward to kitchen scenes to see if they're somewhat realistic. Shit, I like to try to read wine labels to see if the year is a good vintage. Maybe I should watch this again without a good bottle of red next to me.

[awbrig]

Sorry to say but this was one of the worst restaurant movies that I have ever seen. I fell asleep watching it and always look foward to kitchen scenes to see if they're somewhat realistic. Shit, I like to try to read wine labels to see if the year is a good vintage. Maybe I should watch this again without a good bottle of red next to me

I thought it was awesome and one of the better movies I have seen in a very long time...

[gknl]

Have you seen Chicago yet?

[awbrig]

Did you catch the reference to Danny Meyer in this film?

Edited January 29, 2003 by awbrig (log)