City Island

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  • Opened March 19, 2010 
  • 1 hr 43 min
  • PG-13 | sexual content, smoking and language

  • Parents: Common Sense Media says Iffy for 13+. More on child suitability

  • Set in a quaint fishing community on the outskirts of New York City, City Island is a hilarious and touching tale about a family whose comfortable co-existence is upended by surprising revelations of past secrets and present day lies. Vince Rizzo (Andy Garcia) is a lifelong resident of the tiny, tradition-steeped Bronx enclave of City Island. A family man who makes his living as a corrections officer, Vince longs to become an actor. Ashamed to admit his aspirations to his family, Vince would rather let his fiery wife Joyce (Julianna Margulies) believe his weekly poker games are a cover for an extramarital affair than admit he’s secretly taking acting classes in Manhattan. A perfect storm of deception, half truths and confusion makes Vince and his family members realize that the truth may not set them free, but it is easier to keep track of than all their well-intentioned white lies. Full synopsis

  • Cast: Andy Garcia, Julianna Margulies, Emily Mortimer, Alan Arkin, Steven Strait
  • Director: Raymond de Felitta
  • Genres: Art House/Foreign, Comedy

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Funny and touching movie

by Movie_Buff_Bradley

Really enjoyed this movie. It makes you "feel" something. Characters were great, too....

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100
San Francisco Chronicle
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You needn't have colorful Italian relatives, like myself, to enjoy this boisterous and warm-hearted film, which sidesteps cliche while embracing the hope and love in loony dysfunctional families everywhere. Read full review

88
New York Post
| Lou Lumenick

For me, the movie's high point comes when Tony auditions for a role in a Martin Scorsese movie. Tony learns not to try so hard -- a lesson that Garcia also seems to have absorbed from City Island. Read full review

88
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
| Joe Williams

A charming throwback filled with authentic characters. Read full review

88
Washington Post
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In this story, everyone, man or woman, is a walled fortress of paranoia, secrecy, unsatisfied yearnings and anger-at-low-tide, all of which will rise and collapse over the course of what is a very funny film, and one that operates at the sea level of humanity. Quaint. Slightly peculiar. Read full review

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A scene from "City Island."