'Brooklyn Lobster' a Movie to Savor!

"BROOKLYN LOBSTER"(2005) Famed director Martin Scorsese introduces this film as a tribute to its writer and director, Kevin Jordan, who is a past recipient of the Martin Scorsese Young Filmmaker Scholarship Award. Jordan returns the compliment with this delightful, heartwarming story about an Italian family in Brooklyn. It is an affectionate look at a family in crisis during one trying Christmas week where everything that could possibly go wrong, does.

The inestimable actor, Danny Aiello, stars as Frank Giorgio, a gruff Italian patriarch and the owner of Giorgio's Lobster Farm, a third-generation family owned and operated seafood supply business. The bank that had financed his new restaurant addition went under and now the FDIC wants to auction off his entire business to pay off the bank loan.

Frank's son, Michael (Daniel Sauli), returns home from Seattle for Christmas with a local girl that he hopes to marry only to find both the family and the business in turmoil. On top of the looming FDIC auction, he finds out that his long suffering mother, Maureen (Jane Curtin), has moved out of their family home and that the business has been effectively shut down due to a breakage in the sea water intake pipes. With his father fuming and fulminating in frustration, Michael is quickly reminded of why he had to get away in the first place. Grade: B+, Recommended? Yes!
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Carl Zapffe,
The Cat's Meow Movie Critic
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