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  Review by DirkH ★★★★ 10

  That final scene....

  Everything that went before it, the bonds of family, brotherly affection, love, all captured in the simple act of frying an egg.

  Just magical.

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  Review by fran hoepfner ★★★★½ 2

  that last scene, mamma mia!

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  Review by Daniel Gallegos ★★★★½ 1

  RataTucci

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  Review by Jonathan White ★★★★ 9

  I love Letterboxd

  Yesterday, when reading another member’s great observations of Mostly Martha, a chef centric film I quite enjoyed, I noticed he ended with the observation that while good, it wasn’t quite the culinary classic Tampopo, Babette’s Feast ( both of which I consider masterpieces ), Big Night, and Like Water for Chocolate were. I commented on his review that I’ll have to see the latter two, as I loved the former two. I mentioned this to Lise, and she exclaimed ‘you haven’t seen Big Night?!!’ Of course, she had already collected it, and within minutes it was lighting up the screen.

  I loved Big Night

  Like my beloved Babette’s Feast, Big Night steers towards a comestible climax, but…

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  Review by Sally Jane Black 3

  Charmingly anti-climatic, beautifully filmed food porn, and Minnie Driver deserves better.

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  Review by sophie b ★★★★ 3

  i want stanley tucci to make me scrambled eggs

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  Review by Benjamin ★★★★ 1

  As far as I’m concerned this is the live action Mario movie

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  Review by chavel ★★★★ 2

  People eat with a lot of gusto in Big Night, this being one of those food movies where the camera angles appropriately capture the food in all its zest. Stanley Tucci and Campbell Scott co-directed this fiction about two Italian brothers who run an authentic Italian restaurant in 1950’s New Jersey at a time when no locals appreciate, uh, great food. They can make a timpano, they can make a seafood risotto where the shrimp and scallop are so blended in they are invisible. Secondo and Primo, the brothers with an American dream, are so knee deep in perfect cooking they have failed to see right away that perfectionism is sinking their business.

  With simpatico, Stanley Tucci and Tony Shalhoub…

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  Review by Alyssa Heflin ★★★★ 1

  Kept gasping "oh my god" at the food, at Minnie Driver, at Tony Shalhoub's arms, at how cute Alison Janney is, just a real bevy of riches.

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  Review by Milo Paulus ★★★★½ 7

  A truly remarkable film with tremendous work by all actors involved, and an insightful script about friendship, love, passion, cultural clash, adaptability and ambition, all dressed up as this wonderful feast of a film that gets better and better with every passing minute, until it reaches an unexpected but brilliant climax.

  Big Night is without question one of the most underrated / underappreciated / under-seen films I've probably watched, ever? With only a scant amount of ratings on IMDb, and a handful of the people I follow who have seen it, this is a clear example of a film that deserves more love. I stumbled on it totally by accident. I had never heard of this film before a couple…

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  Review by laura ★★★½

  young tony shalhoub, stanley tucci, and marc anthony all work at the same restaurant and people aren’t lining up at the door? i’m appalled

  also!! marc anthony wins best performance in a motion picture for someone that has one line at most but brilliantly stacks eggs onto a tiny piece of bread. cinema at its finest *chef’s kiss*

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  Review by Robert Franco

  "you will never have my brother. he live in a world above you. what he has, and what he is, is real. you are nothing."