At my every onion-moment, a woman in the aisle seat in the row behind me began sneezing fully and ferociously. I can only guess at what the two of us, and who knows who else, might have been overflowing with. Secondo finds, if not seductive, at least a pragmatic alternative to giving up and going home to Italy. The acting in this movie is superb. Big Night is clearly Stanley Tucci's labor of love, and he has brought it off with integrity, artistic aplomb, and, in a masterstroke of analogy, precisely the satisfaction of a great meal.
Some meals are more satisfying than others.
Who Walks Alone . Robert's walking-alone is part of his bluster, but it is also his fate. The movie is a nostalgic story filmed nostalgically. Robert is an overgrown child, and brainy Novalyne falls both for his beefy physicality and for the weakness of his unrealized potential, which cries out for nurturing.