Dinner Rush
| Dinner Rush | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Bob Giraldi | 
| Written by | Brian S. Kalata Rick Shaughnessy | 
| Starring | Danny Aiello Edoardo Ballerini Vivian Wu Kirk Acevedo | 
| Cinematography | Tim Ives | 
| Music by | Alex Lasarenko | 
| Release date | 
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| Country | United States | 
| Language | English | 
| Box office | $638,227 | 
Dinner Rush is a 2000 American independent feature film, written by Brian S. Kalata and Rick Shaughnessy, and directed by Bob Giraldi. It stars Danny Aiello as a restaurateur-bookmaker in New York City's Tribeca neighborhood and Edoardo Ballerini as his son, the restaurant's star chef.
The film deals with converging pressures from the son and his gambling sous-chef who work in the kitchen, as well as organized crime. Aside from one sequence before the opening credits, it adheres to two of the three classical unities: time and space. All of the events after the opening credits occur during one evening at the restaurant or just outside.