Go See City Island,

Emmy Nominated Andy Garcia and actress Julianna Margulies portray a married couple from City Island in this 2010 movie about a couple apparently fixed in a groove of life without excitement. The movie, made in 2009, shows what a dysfunctional family of people who can’t seem to bring themselves to tell even the simplest truth to one another. For example, Garcia’s character, Vince Rizzo, a corrections officer by day, wants to become a Hollywood star so he’s been taking acting classes no one knows about.

This dark family comedy won the coveted audience award at the 2009 famed Tribeca Film Festival where most films go to generate a buzz which in turn brings more people out to view the film when it hits the theaters. This was its first screening and critics and movie-goers both enjoyed the hilarity that came out of this charming yet smart film about the lengths families will go to in order hide the truth from one another.

Everyone in this dysfunctional family unit is hiding something from the rest of the family, a large secret that they believe would destroy their parents and the way everyone things about them. Garcia, the father of this film and the star of the very popular Ocean’s movie franchises, is hiding the fact that he desperately wants to become an actor. Garcia’s wife, performed perfectly by Margulies of televisions The Good Wife, hides her smoking and is often sneaking around trying to catch Garcia’s character in bed with another woman, something she won’t find.

Other cast members include a collage-attending daughter, or she’s supposed to be, who is actually hiding the fact she is a stripper. This character is portrayed by Dominik Garca-Lorido who was in Lost City. The couple’s youngest son, played by Ezra Miller from TV’s Californication is also hiding a secret. He has a fetish and it has something to do with the family’s 300 lbs neighbor. Playing Garcia’s characters drama coach is Emmy Award Winner Alan Arkin of Little Miss Sunshine who also hides some deep issues.

When creating a story, a screenwriter needs to ask themselves ‘why today’? What is so special about this day or this time in the family’s life that makes a movie interesting. Vince Rizzo answers that question by his reaction to an acting exercises. Rizzo decides to bring home his long-lost son which he located in the prison he works at. The fact that the elder Rizzo found his long lost son in the prison he works at as a corrections officer is so much change and a lie he can’t cover up, he bring him home to meet the family.

Emily Mortimer of the movie Shutter Island gives a performance of the elder Rizzo’s confidant and acting partner. Mortimer and Garcia’s chemistry is almost perfect in this quirky and almost always funny movie for the most laughs and best chemistry, money is on Margulies’ and Garcia. They play a typical New York married couple whose miscommunications and constant love-hate yelling will steal the show.

The movie’s namesake is a real live place just outside of the Bronx’s and it is teaming with tradition. There are basically no ‘outsiders’ in the tiny former fishing village and parents hand down their houses from generation to generation. People outside of Manhattan and the Bronx don’t know of this beautiful little community, that is, until now.

This movie came out in April of 2010 and the Blu-Ray and DVD release date is scheduled for August 24, 2010. In addition to his acting duties, Andy Garcia is also one of the many producers, joining several co-producers and executive producers. The film was written and directed, as a labor of love by Raymond De Felitta.

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