City Island (2009)
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81% of critics liked it
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76% of users liked it
(29,156 ratings)
A dysfunctional family living on a picturesque island in the Bronx spares no expense in avoiding the truth about their messed-up lives in writer/director Raymond de Felitta's dark family comedy. The family patriarch, Vince (Andy Garcia) is a prison guard who is secretly plotting a new career as… More A dysfunctional family living on a picturesque island in the Bronx spares no expense in avoiding the truth about their messed-up lives in writer/director Raymond de Felitta's dark family comedy. The family patriarch, Vince (Andy Garcia) is a prison guard who is secretly plotting a new career as an actor. Meanwhile, as Vince takes acting lessons on the down low, his daughter moonlights as a stripper and his younger namesake harbors a secret fetish that involves the family's 300-pound neighbor. Under normal circumstances Vincent's wife, Joyce (Julianna Margulies), would be the family rock, but lately she's been preoccupied with uncovering the identity of the hired help, a secret that only her husband knows. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
- Directed By
- Raymond De Felitta
- Written By
- Raymond De Felitta
- Genres
- Comedy
- In Theaters
- Mar 19, 2010 Wide
- Studio
- Anchor Bay Entertainment
Critic Reviews
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Frank Scheck, Hollywood Reporter
Andy Garcia demonstrates real comic chops in this charming comedy of family dysfunction.
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Jonathan F. Richards, Film.com
This is the kind of movie that could easily sink into comedy hijinks as broad and flat as pappardelle. But it doesn't. De Felitta... makes no apologies for the outrageousness of the coincidences and gloriously knotty relationships and secrets.
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Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel
Writer-director Raymond De Felitta has cut together a frustrating comedy, with the misunderstandings piling up like kindling for a bonfire that his movie never lights.
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Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic
A funny, heartfelt look at families, relationships and the lies that prop them up as much as tear them down.
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Tom Long, Detroit News
Writer-director Raymond De Felitta is essentially offering a kinky-comic New Yawk version of a Greek tragedy here, and even if the whole thing is pretty implausible, it's also fairly entertaining.
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Cast
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Andy Garcia
as Vince Rizzo
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Julianna Margulies
as Joyce Rizzo
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Emily Mortimer
as Molly Charlesworth
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Alan Arkin
as Michael Malakov
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Steven Strait
as Tony Nardella
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Ezra Miller
as Vinnie Rizzo
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Dominik García-Lorido
as Vivian Rizzo
- Raymond De Felitta








