Big Night Page #3

Synopsis: Primo and Secondo are two brothers who have emigrated from Italy to open an Italian restaurant in America. Primo is the irascible and gifted chef, brilliant in his culinary genius, but determined not to squander his talent on making the routine dishes that customers expect. Secondo is the smooth front-man, trying to keep the restaurant financially afloat, despite few patrons other than a poor artist who pays with his paintings. The owner of the nearby Pascal's restaurant, enormously successful (despite its mediocre fare), offers a solution - he will call his friend, a big-time jazz musician, to play a special benefit at their restaurant. Primo begins to prepare his masterpiece, a feast of a lifetime, for the brothers' big night...
Genre: Drama, Romance
Production: Samuel Goldwyn Films
  9 wins & 17 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.3
Metacritic:
80
Rotten Tomatoes:
96%
R
Year:
1996
109 min
2,470 Views


Well, no. I don't mean sad.

But I mean, you know, it just gets me

all jazzed up, you know.

And then I want to go in one place,

but I can't go there,

and, you know, I have to go crazy.

Well, we don't have to... I mean,

you know, we've done other things.

No, I know. I know. I know.

So, what's the problem?

I know. I just want you to be...

I can't. I can't. No.

I just want it to be,

when for you and me to be okay...

Something, all right?

I mean, I want for it

to be the right time, okay?

And I mean... Because this is

very important thing, okay.

- I know it, but not for...

- Okay?

- Just like, it's like for me a casual thing.

- For me, neither.

You know, like, oh, that's okay,

like that. It's not like that.

I know it's not like that

for you either, but...

I want it to be, you know, when

the time is right, I mean, you know?

Because now everything is

just too much and I just can't...

I just I, I want it to, I want us to be,

when I am more set.

- Set?

- Yes.

Oh, so, it's about finances.

- Well...

- It's about money?

No, Phyllis, it's not about money, okay?

And don't make it sound like that.

Don't make it like... Okay.

It's not like that, okay.

Because I'm here working,

trying to do something. Is very hard

and then, you know,

my brother is driving me crazy. Okay.

I'm just saying that it's about money,

yes. It's about money, okay.

If you want me to say, yes.

I'm sorry you don't understand me, okay.

Oh, yeah, I don't understand money.

I work in a bank.

What did you say?

- I understand money.

- Good.

Honey, I just...

All I want is for the time

to be right, okay?

I know.

And I want it to be right for you.

And the time... It is not right for you.

Okay? Do you understand what I mean?

You know.

I don't think you know what you want.

I really don't.

What do you mean?

What?

What do you want, huh?

You know exactly what you want?

What do you want, huh?

What do you want me to do?

You want me to ask you to marry you

right now?

- Oh, is that a proposal?

- No. Well, no.

Do you want to marry me?

- Do I want to marry you?

- Yeah.

Yes.

Probably, someday, yes, in the future,

I want to marry you, Phyllis,

but not right now.

Thank you very much

but, no, not right now.

- I'm sorry.

- Okay.

- What?

- Nothing. Just forget it.

I don't know.

I'm so tired.

Yeah, it's very late.

- Hey, how are you?

- Is he here?

Yeah, in the back...

- Ciao, how are you?

- I'm fine, and you?

Good, good. You're busy tonight, huh?

Every night.

Hey, Number Two.

You're here early, huh?

- Charlie, how are you?

- What's your poison?

Scotch and soda, please.

You're busy tonight, huh?

Hey, Friday night, you know.

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Submitted on August 05, 2018

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