Dinner Rush

Dinner Rush

7.0IMDb Score
Released:2000-09-01
Duration:99 min
Director:Bob Giraldi
Actors:Danny Aiello, Polly Draper, Alex Corrado, Zainab Jah, John Rothman
Production:Access Motion Picture Group, Giraldi-Suarez-DiGiaimo Productions

Overview:

One unlucky evening, Louis Cropa, a part-time bookmaker, discovers that his restaurant has become a hotbed of conflicting characters. In addition to having to please a whiny food critic, Louis must fend off a hostile takeover from a pair of gangsters, to whom his sous-chef is in debt. Further, Louis has an argument with his son, the star chef, whose culinary creativity has brought success to the business.

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