Dinner Rush (Giraldi; 2000) When a Manhattan chef gets into debt with the mob, a pair of Mafiosi hoodlum are attracted to Manhattan's hottest restaurant, who just happen to have murdered friend/partner of restaurant owner Louis Cropa. ****
Excellent film, yet terribly under-rated. Giraldi really does take andvantage of the limited space alloted in a Manhattan building, while still being able to bring that clustered feeling of being in a crowded restaurant to the screen. The ending was unexpected and wondeful--it really made sense of the presence of seemingly irrelevant characters. It just made me think of that saying, about how everyone is where they are at any given moment for a reason; Although their presence was truly the masterwork of Louis Cropa (Danny Aiello).
"Somebody told me when the bomb hits, everybody in a two mile radius will be instantly sublimated, but if you lay face down on the ground for some time, avoiding the residual ripples of heat, you might survive, permanently fucked up and twisted like you're always underwater refracted. But if you do go gas, there's nothing you can do if the air that was once you is mingled and mashed with the kicked up molecules of the enemy's former body. Big-kid-tested, motherf--ker approved."
