Cast:
Danny Aiello  .... Louis Cropa
John Rothman  .... Gary Lieberman
Frank Bongiorno  .... Enrico Coventie
Lexie Sperduto  .... Lucy Clemente
Zainab Jah  .... Adrian
Alex Corrado  .... Paolo
Mike McGlone  .... Carmen
Walt MacPherson  .... Detective Drury
Polly Draper  .... Natalie Clemente
Edoardo Ballerini  .... Chef Udo Cropa
Vivian Wu  .... Nicole Chan
Manny Perez  .... Gabriel
Ajay Naidu  .... Ademir the Matre'd
Andre Haynes Richarson... Machine (as Andre Richardson Haynes)
Summer Phoenix  .... Marti Wellington

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Plot summary
Is it just another evening at the hugely popular Italian restaurant of proprietor and bookmaker Louis Cropa in New York? Anything but as tonight's guests include; a local police detective and his wife specially invited by the owner; on the balcony rival bookmaker gangsters from Queens who want to become partners in the restaurant; in the corner renowned food critic'the food nymph' is her usual demanding self;and at the bar,seemingly unnoticed, is Ken. As the evening continues enter Duncan, inveterate gambler and sous-chef on-the-line in the frenetic kitchen downstairs, who acts as the catalyst that causes the evening to draw to its inevitable, explosive, deadly conclusion.