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Uncle Nino’s heart is in the right place, but those around him have difficulty seeing this because his behavior suggests that his brain is not. This description of the title character in Robert Shallcross’ new movie, Uncle Nino, actually captures a lot of what is wrong with this well-intentioned picture: it has heart to spare, but it frustrates because it lacks brains...
...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...
...fact that his excessive zeal for America—he keeps a photo of Abraham Lincoln with him—is neither motivated nor explained, Uncle Nino is quickly revealed to be a combination of clichéd ideas rather than a believable character. To get a sense of this think two straight hours of Pinocchio’s Geppetto, with a very bad cocaine problem...
...charity dinner at the Kuwaiti embassy two weeks ago to an Inaugural lunch at D.C.'s chic Caf?? Milano, guests have been surprised to find the once reclusive Scalia mixing with the city's power brokers, making small talk and telling jokes. "Lately, I've been running into Nino everywhere," says a friend and fellow lawyer. "He's showing that he actually can be charming and gregarious. It's a sign that he's really interested in the job." --By James Carney and Matthew Cooper
...Nino Tinari, one of Ali’s defense lawyers, said that these prior incidents will support a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity...