Dinner Rush est un film réalisé en 2000 par Bob Giraldi,également propriétaire du restaurant "Gigino"où se passe l'action.

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.
 

à gauche :Alex Corrado:Paolo-joueur invétéré,qui perd de grosses sommes.Il est également le chouchou du patron (Danny Aiello) à qui il prépare des petits plats traditionnels à l'ancienne...

à droite :Edoardo Ballerini:Chef Udo Cropa le fils,partisan d'une nouvelle cuisine,encensé par la critique.Il aimerait bien reprendre l'affaire et transformer le restaurant.Une rivalité supplémentaire entre les deux hommes :il est l'ex de "D"Vivian Wu (Nicole Chan) actuelle maitresse de Paollo

à gauche :Danny Aiello-(Louis Cropa) +ou- ex maffieux,patron du restau / et son fils Udo

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La critique de Roger Ebert (1)
January 18, 2002   | 

Unbelievable. Only in New York can a double murder triple your business. So it is observed in "Dinner Rush," a movie set in one of those Italian restaurants that the customers are tickled to believe is mob-connected even though it isn't, because it makes it more thrilling that way. (Rosebud, the Chicago eatery, had billboards saying, "We serve the whole mob.") The story unfolds during one long night at an Italian place in Tribeca that is undergoing an identity crisis. The owner Louis (Danny Aiello) likes traditional Italian fare.

His son Udo (Edoardo Ballerini) is into nouvelle, or nuovo, cuisine and boasts: "Sausage and peppers is not on my menu." Louis is in despair. He wants to turn the place over to his son, but not if it means abandoning dishes that make you think of breadsticks and red-and-white checkerboard tablecloths. There are other problems. A man has been murdered, and the identity of his killers may be known to Louis. And two men have come into the restaurant, taken a table, called Louis over, and informed him, "We're not leaving here until we're partners in the business."Louis says they can have the book he runs,but not the restaurant Never the restaurant.

They don't leave.It's a busy night. The party at one long table is presided over by Fitzgerald (Mark Margolis), a gravel-voiced snob who talks slooowly so the cretins of the world can understand him.He runs an art gallery and is treating a visiting Greek artist.The enter tainment consists of insulting his waitress (Summer Phoenix) and the maitresse 'd (Vivian Wu). At another table, Sandra Bernhard plays a food critic as if she considers the performance personal revenge on every theater and movie critic who has ever said a word against her.