Rizzo's are a dysfunctional family and everyone has a personal secret. They hide it from each until the secrets blows up causing considerable chaos and shame on each other. Rizzo's live in a sea-side town called City Island; the father Vince Rizzo (Andy Garcia) works as a corrections officer (prison guard) is interested to become an actor. Instead of discussing with his wife and family, he begins to take acting classes and allow his fiery wife Joyce (Julianna Margulies) believe he has an extramarital affair. His son's secret is that he has is infatuated with full figured women and his daughter works as a stripper at a local club to pay for her education. His wife Joyce is attracted to a young ex-con on parole that Vince has brought to stay with them. When Joyce learns his secret girlfriend is his acting partner (Emily Mortimer) she becomes outraged and sets out to have a romantic evening with Vince's ex-con friend, it becomes evident that he is not interested in Joyce for some strange reason. He sets out to make things straight by abducting Vince's daughter from strip club and pressure her to reveal to the family about her secret. It turns out that this young ex-con is the son of Vince from another woman before he met Joyce. This plot could easily have been melodramatic or sentimental, but writer-director Raymond De Felitta turns this into a comedy. This is a thoroughly enjoyable film with some fine performance by Julianna Margulies.
Reference: City Island – DVD, Starring Andy Garcia
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