The "big night" in question is a last ditch effort to save their failing institution, attended by multiple lovers and the man behind a neighboring hotspot. Tucci plays Secondo, the face of the enterprise, while Tony Shalhoub is his brother Primo, the chef who doesn't really care if the rude Americans eating in his establishment don't understand that his seafood risotto is more subtle than what they were expecting. It's also a movie about assimilation and authenticity and how that comes between family members. Stanley Tucci's film about two brothers running an Italian restaurant on the Jersey shore in the 1950s treats the Timpano with holy reverence, but it's not just about feats of feeding. Big Night is not only a great food movie, it also contains arguably the most impressive food item in all of cinema: the incredible pasta cake known as the Timpano.
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