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Featured Movie: Big Night
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The Exchange Club thanks everyone for their selfless
actions to make the 7th Annual Madison Arts Night it's most successful ever.
Lifted by the huge turnout of restaurants and vendors, sponsors of all levels,
donations, a great silent auction, the sweet delights of gourmet desserts,
elegant roses and mums, live music provided by the Mo' Johnson Band, and masterful mingling by honorary chairman Darren
Kramer, you made our Big Night. We raised in the neighborhood of $10,000 to help us help
the local community and also break the cycle of Child Abuse and educate the
dangers of Shaken Baby and Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. For one night, we were
all Exchangites. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts.
Big Night - A provocative tale set in the late 1950s where two
Italian immigrant brothers, Primo (Tony Shalhoub) and Secundo (Tucci),
are struggling to keep their restaurant from going under. Their food,
concocted by the perfectionist Primo, is years ahead of its time; their
customers expect spaghetti and meatballs, but Primo is an artist whose
seafood risottos are too subtle for their philistine palates. Across
the street, their rival Pascal (Ian Holm) is packing them in serving
bad Italian food with singing waiters. Secundo pins their hopes on a banquet for star singer and jazz entertainer, Louis Prima.
A film of great wisdom and delight
- Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun Times
Big Night serves up a satisfying full meal with side courses
- Todd McCarthy, Variety
It will paste a big, sloppy smile on your face from its opening moment. Good luck at dislodging it
- Jeff Millar, Houston Chronicle
A scrumptious tale of great food and grand passions
- Rita Kempley, Washington Post
1996 Sundance Film Festival Screenwriting Award
1996 Boston Society of Film Critics Awards for Best New Filmmaker and Best Screenplay
1997 Independent Spirits Award for Best Screenplay
1998 London Critics Circle Film Award for British
Supporting Actress of the Year (Minnie Driver)
1996 National Board of
Review, Special Recognition Award;
1997 National Society of Film
Critics Awards, U.S.A. for Best Supporting Actor (Tony Shalhoub)
1996
New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best New Director
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