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Release year - 1996
Age rating -
Angelina’s role - Gina Malacici
‘Box Office’ gross - $32,925
Film length - 120 mins
Film genre - Comedy
Recommended Audience - Anybody, Romantics/Comedics
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Cast list -
• Joseph Bologna • Nathaniel Marston • Barbara Carrera • Renée Taylor • William Hickey • Dick Van Patten • Abe Vigoda • Connie Stevens • Paul Sorvino • click here for the full IMDB list | • Jeff Beal - Music • Robyn Knoll - Casting • Dona Granata - Costunes • Joseph Bologna - Director • Renée Taylor - Director |
One of the now prevolent remakes of Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet. We join Sadie and Mike Cappamezza (Lainie Kazan and Joseph Bologna respectively) and their son Rosario (Nathaniel Marston), a traditional Sicilian family with a traditional Sicilian restaurant in City Island, USA. They favour heavy sauces and large ‘family-size’ portions - but their son is not happy. He is acting Romeo & Juliet in the local theatre and his partner is a rather large, stroppy female who ends up breaking the set, falling from the landing and ends up in hospital. The play cannot go on without Juliet ...
... in step the Count and Countess of Malacici (Paul Sorvino and Barbara Carrera) and their beautiful daughter Gina (Angelina Jolie) to take the role. They are rival Sicilian caterers but serve a higher class of clientele. Lighter sauces covering more delicate and better laid-out dishes. The families hate each other, at every chance verbal jibes fly.
There is an instant attraction : horror-of-horrors the children love each other. It is agreed, Gina and Rosario cannot see each other - “it is for your own good” - so Rosario is grounded to his room and the restaurant’s kitchen, and Gina under contant vigilance of her parents. Love conquers all the two manage to steal away from rival catering events to meet each other in a small hut. When the families discover the two are missing, all the men from either family rush at each other with bats, knives and fists raised. Destroying each others events they end up pushing the hut on its side - trapping Rosario and Gina inside. That is, until the two fathers become concerned and, with the rather useless help of Mrs. Cappamezza and her so-called psychic ability, they eventually home in on the hut and rescue the pair.
Safe again the pair marry and the families learn to live together in harmony.
If you have watched My Big Fat Greek Wedding, you should grasp the gist of this film. Small amounts of pathetic comedy interspersed with family feuding.
TRIVIA
Malacici translates from Italian as “bad beans” and Cappamezza translates as “half a head”
| Review - by Paul Harris (male) | ||
| Thoughts/Opinions - | A fair film, worth watching when there is nothing better, but not a masterpiece. Speaking Spanish and French (and some German) I can appreciate the Italian accent - it was not bad, although far from authentic. | |
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| Review - by Claire Bilton (female) | ||
| Thoughts/Opinions - | AJ plays an Italian Juliet style role in Gina Malacici. The accent is laughable but so much so that you won’t want to turn away. It is a ridiculous plot with ridiculous acting but watchable none the less. | |
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| Watch if you liked - | Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet / My Big Fat Greek Wedding | |
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