You won't be disappointed!

Perfect cast and a good story

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Watching it is like watching the spectacle of a class clown at their best: you laugh at their jokes, instigate their defiance, and "ooooh" when they get in trouble.

This is a movie is about the Rizzo family who live on City Island which is an island connected to the Bronx, New York via a bridge. They live in a small community in which you are either a "Clam Digger" or "Mussel Sucker," those residents who were born on the island and those whose families going back three and four generations (true). The Rizzos are Clam Diggers and they all have a secret and think no in their family knows, well then again they don't until prison guard Vince Rizzo's (Andy Garcia) son, Tony (Steven Straigh) from a previous relationship is released from prison to his custody.Vince, his wife Joyce (Julianna Margulies), his youngest son Vinnie (Ezra Miller), and oldest son, Tony all eventually know everyone's secret, but how it unfolds is where the entertainment is - who's gonna find out, what, when? Good after work film, funny, entertaining and you won't have nightmares.

A great plot and story line with all the members of the Rizzo family harboring their little secrets from each other and coexisting in simmering contempt for one another largely because of their unwillingness to expose their vulnerabilities and secret lives.One of those secrets, in the person of Tony, an inmate at a prison facility where Vince works, is portrayed initially as somewhat of a loser with a chip on his shoulder. He could be released on conditional parole if he had some family member willing to take him in. It turns out that he is the son of Vince Rizzo, conceived in a fling with a woman many years ago. Vince abandoned the woman & child and his connection to Tony, his son, is not known to anyone but Vince. Vince decides to get Tony paroled into his custody and brings him home to his stunned family on the flimsy pretext that Tony can help him install a bathroom in an out-building.In many ways Tony appears to be the sanest member of the household. In time the family members either directly confess their little secrets to him or inadvertently expose them to him and he acts as a catalyst that eventually brings the family together, following often hilarious and/or touching, planned or inadvertent interactions.Probably the funniest situation involved Vince's son, Vince Jr, played by Ezra Miller. Vince Jr. was coping rather ineptly with a fairly uncommon fetish. Tony realizes the nature of Vince Jr.'s desire and non- judgmentally engineers its resolution. While all the actors handled their roles excellently, I felt that Steven Strait as Tony and Ezra Miller as Vince Jr. stole the show.My only complaint was that Vince's acting lessons and try-out for a part in a movie were dragged out longer than needed. Attending acting lessons, nervously joining the seemingly endless queue of other actors hoping for the part and his stilted, clumsy first audition attempt were more tedious than amusing, especially when compared to all the other funny and fast- paced subplots.A truly enjoyable movie that might have been even better with some footage left on the cutting room floor.

Andy Garcia with a heart? True - here he's an average, flawed but decent and at times vulnerable family man, who has more success communicating with his charges at the correctional facility where he works as a guard than he does with his own family.In a low-key and heart-warming movie, the individual characters radiate individuality - aside of Garcia, (Vince Rizzo) there's his blunt and free-spirited (OK, bossy!) wife, Joyce (Julianna Margulies), college student daughter, who's dropped out to do a spot of stripping and their teenage son, who has a sexual fetish for BBW's...(and he gets to spy on one and meet her!)The family know nothing of each of their individual 'pursuits' - add to the mix Vince's poker sessions with the boys that are actually acting classes, run by that wonderful old sage, Alan Arkin, typically and sardonically treating us to a gentle belittling of his students. British Emily Mortimer sticks to her native accent as Vince's friend, who he gets to slowly confide in. Many will find Garcia's fumbled and over- acted, or under-acted? amateur dramatics very funny, as he hopelessly impersonates every gangster stereotype possible, with Brando's 'method' acting ripe for a swipe.Rizzo also manages to get some cheap, unofficial labour so he can build a bespoke bathroom - who this is, the effect he has on them all and who he turns out to be is a whole extra story, interwoven with the rest. Affectionately filmed in the Bronx, this has a community feel about it and the film's title refers to that place in one's mind and imagination in which to take a break - to think and reflect.What's best about it all is that it's comfortable with itself. It doesn't try too hard - it knows its place and with its affectionate heart, interesting characters, most will find City Island nicely satisfying.

City Island shows us typical family life.Problems between father-mother and with their children.Fatherhood must be so difficult.You have to interested in your wife,your children.Actually It seems,there is no personally time.Vince Rizzo wanted to change that idea.And his idea was perfect.Everybody must have some special.And we felt lots of comedy moment.Comedy with dram can't be better like that scenerio.The only thing that I don't like was about the woman who was with Vince at acting class.Why she left him,I tought about it,Was It really necessary ?Anyway,nice work ! I liked that. 8/10Onur KOCATEPE