Best movie of this year hands down!

Sorry, this movie sucks

Good story, Not enough for a whole film

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Well, well, in this movie are so many coincidences meeting together to be credible, but apparently is one of those movies that Americans love (just look at that score on IMDb, which seems a bit undeserved).***BIG spoiler***A dysfunctional family —that really is not so— in the midst of a lot of happy coincidences that lead them to... well, to the usual place. Four members family, boy, girl, mom, dad; beautiful (and kind of exotic) urban landscape, nice house, everything seems to be wrong but —don't worry, because, as you expected...— it will be fixed, magically.***END of the BIG spoiler***Sometimes wants to be a comedy, but I do not laugh at all, sometimes intended to have the realistic touch of family drama, but fails.To spend an hour and a half lightly, after suspension of disbelief.

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.

A dysfunctional family living in the Bronx is headed up by a dad who works as a prison guard by day and takes acting classes at night. No one in the family knows about this, and he isn't about to tell them. The stay-at-home wife suspects he's having an affair. Dad never made it to college, and Mom had to drop out of college when she became pregnant. So they live their lives in noisy despair, constantly yelling at one another. Their daughter is a college dropout who works as a stripper, which is her deep dark secret. Their son is a brainiac who is too bored to finish high school, and who becomes fascinated with a heavyset neighbor who operates a website showing her cooking. Into their lives comes an ex-con who is the husband's son from a previous relationship. Only the husband knows this, and brings the guy home under the pretext of giving him a job working on the house. Complications understandably ensue. This indie is laced with bits of humor. Only the ending is contrived. The rest is highly watchable, thanks largely to Andy Garcia as a middle-aged man at a crossroads. And Juliana Marguelies is radiant as the frustrated housefrau. Worth a watch.

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