“Dinner Rush,” DVD, 4 February 2005 (2000). We both enjoyed this very interesting look at elite restaurant culture in NYC’s Tribeca, starring Danny Aiello. A homey trattorria run by Aiello and his partner (a pair of restaraunteur-bookies) has become a huge trendy hit under the guidance of the star chef, Aiello’s son. A pair of mobsters want to take over the action and appear on the same night a major restaurant critic (an over the top performance form Sandra Bernhard mocking both elite critics and herself) and a prominent art critic and his minions show up. It’s about the culture of the restaurant world with its star chefs with egos to match, the speed and craziness of the work and the kitchen, addictions, gambling, the transition from one culture in American immigrant life to another (nouveau Italian), mob life in NYC, and the permeability of NYC and American culture. It’s a rich little sleeper of a movie marred only by a flawed and overly simplistic wrap-up. It didn’t have to end that way, a big gap in the screenplay from my point of view, but it’s still a good little film that no one seems to have seen or heard of