Leo and Angela Russo live a simple life in Queens, surrounded by their overbearing Italian-American family. When their son finds success on his high school basketball team, Leo tears the family apart trying to make it happen.
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- Brent Marchanton TMDB · Jun 20238/10
Genuinely funny family comedies – those without rampant silliness, obnoxiously cynical, smart-mouthed kids, and saccharine-encrusted coatings – have become a rarity in recent years, but, fortunately, this debut feature from actor-writer-director Ray Romano has breathed some new life in this genre. This film about a blue collar New York construction worker (Romano) follows his loving efforts to help out his painfully shy but gifted 18-year-old son (Jacob Ward) earn a college basketball scholarship in an effort to help him stave off a future that’s likely to be disappointingly identical to his own. However, despite his earnest, heartfelt gestures, he ends up creating more issues than he bargained for, some of which threaten to saddle his tight-knit Italian family with more headaches and hurt than expected. The result is a delightful though far from sappy offering very much in the mode of comedies they generally don’t make any more. The film is chock full of hilarious one-liners from a smartly written script that’s executed with snappy direction, steadily paced editing and fine acting, especially in the award-worthy performance of Laurie Metcalf as the athletic prodigy’s mother. The p
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Cast
- Ray RomanoLeo Russo
- Laurie MetcalfAngela Russo
- Jacob WardMatthew 'Sticks' Russo
- Sadie StanleyDani Brooks
- Jennifer EspositoPamela Carmelo
- Deirdre FrielRosa Russo
- Jon ManfrellottiPetey
- Danny GarciaSal
- Erik GriffinDJ Joey Bones
- June GableMama Russo
Crew
- Ray RomanoDirector
- Ray RomanoWriter
- Mark StegemannWriter
- Maceo BishopDirector of Photography
- Mark OrtonOriginal Music Composer
- Robert NassauEditor
- Ray RomanoProducer
- Mark StegemannProducer
- Albert BergerProducer
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