Truth is stranger than family
The Rizzos, a family who doesn't share their habits, aspirations, and careers with one another, find their delicate web of lies disturbed by the arrival of a young ex-con (Strait) brought home by Vince (Garcia), the patriarch of the family, who is a corrections officer in real life, and a hopeful actor in private.
Genre(s): Comedy, Drama
Rating: 7.5/10 (1,483 votes)
Country: USA
Languages: English
Company: CineSon Entertainment
Director(s): Raymond De Felitta
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Producer(s):
Maria Teresa Arida - executive producer
Raymond De Felitta - producer
Luis de Val - co-executive producer
Ged Dickersin - line producer
Andy Garcia - producer
Milutin G. Gatsby - executive producer
Antonio Gijon - co-executive producer
Grzegorz Hajdarowicz - executive producer
Zachary Matz - producer
Michael Roban - executive producer
Lucia Seabra - executive producer
Lauren Versel - producer
Writer(s):
Raymond De Felitta - (written by)
Cast:
George Aloi - Auditioning Actor
Sharon Angela - Tanya
Alan Arkin - Michael Malakov
Vernon Campbell - Bouncer (voice)
Lora Chio - Young Actress
Joseph Cintron - Prison Guard
Curtiss Cook - Matt Curniff
Yevgeniy Dekhtyar - Actor
Paul Diomede - Working Class Guy
Marshall Efron - Man with dog monologue
Music: Jan A.P. Kaczmarek
Maria Teresa Arida - executive producer
Raymond De Felitta - producer
Luis de Val - co-executive producer
Ged Dickersin - line producer
Andy Garcia - producer
Milutin G. Gatsby - executive producer
Antonio Gijon - co-executive producer
Grzegorz Hajdarowicz - executive producer
Zachary Matz - producer
Michael Roban - executive producer
Lucia Seabra - executive producer
Lauren Versel - producer
Writer(s):
Raymond De Felitta - (written by)
Cast:
George Aloi - Auditioning Actor
Sharon Angela - Tanya
Alan Arkin - Michael Malakov
Vernon Campbell - Bouncer (voice)
Lora Chio - Young Actress
Joseph Cintron - Prison Guard
Curtiss Cook - Matt Curniff
Yevgeniy Dekhtyar - Actor
Paul Diomede - Working Class Guy
Marshall Efron - Man with dog monologue
Music: Jan A.P. Kaczmarek
Posted on: March 20, 2010
March 21st, 2010
Honestly, I'm not a huge Andy Garcia fan. Some of his personal rightwing political statements have turned me off and I usually find AndyGarcia (as an actor) playing Andy Garcia. But in City Island, wow. Iguess this is what you would call a command performance. He's extremelybelievable and lovable as a sort of dim-witted (in a Rocky Balboa sortof way) prison guard who secretly takes acting classes and develops afriendship with a young woman while also adopting a convicted felon whojust so happens to be his secret long lost son, while trying to keepall of these life's complications from his tough Bronx wife. Thesub-plots involving his daughter being a stripper and his son having afetish for overweight women are admittedly a little bizarre, but AndyGarcia's performance as the gentle soul just trying to do right in theworld keeps this WoodyAllenesque soap opera entertaining as all hell. Ithink this is the only Andy Garcia movie that I ever really liked, andI have to admit it even brought a tear to my eye. I don't know if CityIsland will ever get the credit it deserves, but in my opinion AndyGarcia's performance in City Island is the stuff that Oscars are madeof.
March 25th, 2010
[...] One engaging comedy about a dysfunctional middle class family residing on an out-of-the-way New York fishing town just a few miles located in the Bronx is City Island. [...]