There are laughs in the movie, and a lot of good feeling, but it seems more interested in its Italian stereotypes than its gay insights, and it must be said there is absolutely no feeling that Angelo and Nino are really lovers.
Mambo Italiano
Things change. Family doesn't.
2003 · 1h 29m · R
Comedy, Romance
Directed by
Émile Gaudreault
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Mambo Italiano
Overview
When an Italian man comes out of the closet, it affects both his life and his crazy family.
Director and cast
- Émile Gaudreault Director
- Luke Kirby as Angelo Barberini
- Ginette Reno as Maria Barberini
- Paul Sorvino as Gino Barberini
- Mary Walsh as Lina Paventi
- Peter Miller as Nino Paventi
- Claudia Ferri as Anna Barberini
- Sophie Lorain as Pina Lunetti
- Tim Post as Peter
- Tara Nicodemo as Yolanda/Woman in Airplane/Jolene
- Pierrette Robitaille Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
It's like watching a spaghetti-sauce commercial stretched out to feature-film length.
Lacks that outrageous effrontery that might have socked it to its intended audience.
Mambo Italiano is likely to provoke the same urges in the movie house that poor Nino experiences after a dinner at the noisy Barberini compound -- an overwhelming desire to flee.
Mambo Italiano is no sophisticated dance, but it moves about with an open heart. And hey, it's at least as funny as that Greek thing.
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