Movie #305 "City Island" - quirky doesn't begin to describe this family. At times funny, at times just quite strange, this movie takes a lot of chances in presenting a very dysfunctional family who doesn't tell the truth to each other AT ALL! That makes most of these people unlikeable ---- if the lead actor, Andy Garcia, didn't have a big dream to be an actor, the film wouldn't go anywhere at all ---- That's the line that reeled me in somewhat, but I still didn't like this movie as much as I thought it would. It goes so crazy at the end, that it passes the stupid line for me. And I never warmed up to the Mortimer character, and I think we were supposed to. Not one I'd recommend to many people at all ---- But I try to see all Andy Garcia films --- he's THAT good! (the one I'd recommend is "When a Man loves a Woman")
Average rating: 3.643
I would give it 3.5
City Island
(2009) PG-13
When he recognizes his son, Tony (Steven Strait), whom he hasn't seen in more than 20 years, among a crop of new inmates in the jail where he works, Vince Rizzo (Andy Garcia) decides to bring the troubled young man home with him, much to the surprise of his wife and kids. Writer-director Raymond De Felitta helms by this offbeat comedy that also stars Julianna Margulies, Emily Mortimer, Dominik Garcia-Lorido and Alan Arkin.
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