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Uncle Nino (Pierrino Mascarino) is an elderly Italian peasant who decides to travel to America for the first time. His recently deceased brother had moved to America in his youth to raise his family. Uncle Nino travels to see Robert (Joan of Arcadia’s Joe Mantegna), his brother’s son, and what he finds is far from his expectations: random strangers don’t like being accosted by random old men who offer them a bite of their salami…apparently that’s just not an American custom...
...store where she talks to friends about her loneliness and wishes that Robert would bring home the salami once in a while. Fourteen-year-old Bobby (Trevor Morgan) divides his time between neighborhood vandalism and playing with his buddies in a garage band, while his little sister Nina (Gina Mantegna) constantly whines about wanting a puppy—Uncle Nino, making an effort to appease her, offers her some salami...
...Christ has come and gone. So has Spider-Man 2. But unless you live in western Michigan, you've probably never heard of this year's longest-running movie, which opened way back on Dec. 5, 2003. That's because Uncle Nino, a sentimental tale starring Joe Mantegna and Anne Archer as a stressed-out couple emotionally disconnected from their kids and each other, is playing at only one theater--in Grand Rapids. What began as a two-week engagement has turned into the longest test-marketing of a film in U.S. history. Director Bob Shallcross, who wrote the screenplay...
...says Billie Sue Berends, a community college instructor who has seen Nino more than 50 times. Having charmed Grand Rapids citizens, Nino at long last is scheduled to open nationwide, in February. Says co-star Archer: "This is a movie for the people who put Bush back into office." Mantegna's mom Mary Ann told Shallcross she was delighted for a different reason: "I enjoy any movie where my son doesn't get whacked." --By Wendy Cole
...began to introduce old master borrowings into his work, at first conflating them with soft, pillowy porn, then working them into more conventionally scaled nudes and lately scattering them into satires of life among the well dressed and well fed. His art-history references come from all over--Botticelli, Mantegna, Courbet--but a favorite is the nudes of Lucas Cranach, the Northern Renaissance painter whose high-waisted women with elongated limbs step toward us with strange, awkward footsteps...