Sebastian Maniscalco as Sebastian and Robert De Niro as Salvo in About My Father. Photo Credit: Dan Anderson. Courtesy of Lionsgate
Comedian Sebastian Maniscalco plays a man named Sebastian Maniscalco while Robert De Niro plays his father Salvo, in the comedy About My Father. Maniscalco and De Niro as father and son are the major delight in this otherwise mildly funny, warm-hearted comedy. It is a comedy about family but not really a family comedy as there are bits of adult humor.
Dad Salvo (De Niro) is a hairstylist (don’t call him a barber!) from a long line of hardworking, hard-scrabble, stoop-postured, Sicilian scowlers, but Salvo left Sicily to immigrate to America to give his son a better life. However, his second-generation Italian-American son has fallen for someone who is not a fellow Italian-American – an artist named Ellie (Leslie Bibb) whose immigrants ancestors came over a little earlier – on the Mayflower.
Comedian Sebastian Maniscalco plays a man named Sebastian Maniscalco while Robert De Niro plays his father Salvo, in the comedy About My Father. Maniscalco and De Niro as father and son are the major delight in this otherwise mildly funny, warm-hearted comedy. It is a comedy about family but not really a family comedy as there are bits of adult humor.
Dad Salvo (De Niro) is a hairstylist (don’t call him a barber!) from a long line of hardworking, hard-scrabble, stoop-postured, Sicilian scowlers, but Salvo left Sicily to immigrate to America to give his son a better life. However, his second-generation Italian-American son has fallen for someone who is not a fellow Italian-American – an artist named Ellie (Leslie Bibb) whose immigrants ancestors came over a little earlier – on the Mayflower.
- 5/26/2023
- by Cate Marquis
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
If Sebastian Maniscalco really is the most popular comic in the country at the moment, you’d never know why from his film debut in About My Father. So unfunny it’s embarrassing, this is an over-the-top, under-achieving generational comedy that feels like it was written in the mid- to late-1960s and has been moldering in a drawer ever since.
At 79 the oldest person in the cast, Robert de Niro has the most energy of anyone in the film and employs all the tricks he could think of to help the cause. Still, this mostly plays like a ragged hand-me-down being performed at top volume, as if the dialogue was going to be competing with a laugh track.
One plausibly might presume that this lightweight vehicle was conceived and designed by Maniscalco using elements of his own upbringing so as to surround himself with reliable talent to ease his...
At 79 the oldest person in the cast, Robert de Niro has the most energy of anyone in the film and employs all the tricks he could think of to help the cause. Still, this mostly plays like a ragged hand-me-down being performed at top volume, as if the dialogue was going to be competing with a laugh track.
One plausibly might presume that this lightweight vehicle was conceived and designed by Maniscalco using elements of his own upbringing so as to surround himself with reliable talent to ease his...
- 5/25/2023
- by Todd McCarthy
- Deadline Film + TV
Previous | Image 1 of 9 | NextComedian and lead actor Sebastian Maniscalco of ‘About My Father.’
Chicago – The Windy City was abuzz with Red Carpet bliss as the multi-star cast and director of the new film “About My Father” walked before the Chicago premiere of the film on May 6th, 2023. Hot stand-up comic Sebastian Maniscalco is the leading man, with his father Salvo portrayed by the legendary Robert De Niro.
The film is Maniscalco’s first lead role, based on routines in his act. The fictional story uses his real name, as he is about to propose to his girlfriend Ellie (Leslie Bibb), but his widowed father Salvo (Robert De Niro) still dominates his life. Ellie asks Sebastian to spend the 4th of July with her wealthy blue blood family, with includes her Senator mother Tigger (Kim Cattrall), father Bill (David Rasche) and brothers Lucky (Anders Holm) and Doug (Brett Dier). Sebastian tries to get out of it,...
Chicago – The Windy City was abuzz with Red Carpet bliss as the multi-star cast and director of the new film “About My Father” walked before the Chicago premiere of the film on May 6th, 2023. Hot stand-up comic Sebastian Maniscalco is the leading man, with his father Salvo portrayed by the legendary Robert De Niro.
The film is Maniscalco’s first lead role, based on routines in his act. The fictional story uses his real name, as he is about to propose to his girlfriend Ellie (Leslie Bibb), but his widowed father Salvo (Robert De Niro) still dominates his life. Ellie asks Sebastian to spend the 4th of July with her wealthy blue blood family, with includes her Senator mother Tigger (Kim Cattrall), father Bill (David Rasche) and brothers Lucky (Anders Holm) and Doug (Brett Dier). Sebastian tries to get out of it,...
- 5/24/2023
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Bill Collins, the ebullient Australian film presenter and host of The Golden Years of Hollywood whose television career spanned more than a half-century, has died. He was 84.
Collins died peacefully in his sleep Thursday night in Sydney, his wife of 36 years, Joan, announced.
"Bill's love of film was encouraged by you, his audience, and his love of sharing his passion increased over the five decades that he presented on every Australian television," she said in a statement.
Nicknamed "Mr. Movies" for his unrivaled knowledge, he would sit behind a desk wearing his trademark black-rimmed glasses,...
Collins died peacefully in his sleep Thursday night in Sydney, his wife of 36 years, Joan, announced.
"Bill's love of film was encouraged by you, his audience, and his love of sharing his passion increased over the five decades that he presented on every Australian television," she said in a statement.
Nicknamed "Mr. Movies" for his unrivaled knowledge, he would sit behind a desk wearing his trademark black-rimmed glasses,...
- 6/21/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Bill Collins, the ebullient Australian film presenter and host of The Golden Years of Hollywood whose television career spanned more than a half-century, has died. He was 84.
Collins died peacefully in his sleep Thursday night in Sydney, his wife of 36 years, Joan, announced.
"Bill's love of film was encouraged by you, his audience, and his love of sharing his passion increased over the five decades that he presented on every Australian television," she said in a statement.
Nicknamed "Mr. Movies" for his unrivaled knowledge, he would sit behind a desk wearing his trademark black-rimmed glasses,...
Collins died peacefully in his sleep Thursday night in Sydney, his wife of 36 years, Joan, announced.
"Bill's love of film was encouraged by you, his audience, and his love of sharing his passion increased over the five decades that he presented on every Australian television," she said in a statement.
Nicknamed "Mr. Movies" for his unrivaled knowledge, he would sit behind a desk wearing his trademark black-rimmed glasses,...
- 6/21/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
A curious experiment that may be best suited to the freedom of a festival setting, “Framing John DeLorean” aims to finally crack the mystery of its titular subject. As we learn early on, the erstwhile car magnate has inspired several filmmakers over many years, but few of them have, until now, gotten their projects off the ground.
Directors Sheena M. Joyce and Don Argott are not just up-front about the difficulty DeLorean’s personality poses; they turn his opacity into prime motivation. This ambitious approach is, unfortunately, more intriguing than effective. That may be because, as the filmmakers freely admit, DeLorean appears impossible to know. They do make an unusually concerted effort though, approaching him from no less than three separate angles.
At first it appears that we’re watching a traditional documentary, in which various colleagues and relatives share their observations alongside well-sourced footage. We learn about the workaholic...
Directors Sheena M. Joyce and Don Argott are not just up-front about the difficulty DeLorean’s personality poses; they turn his opacity into prime motivation. This ambitious approach is, unfortunately, more intriguing than effective. That may be because, as the filmmakers freely admit, DeLorean appears impossible to know. They do make an unusually concerted effort though, approaching him from no less than three separate angles.
At first it appears that we’re watching a traditional documentary, in which various colleagues and relatives share their observations alongside well-sourced footage. We learn about the workaholic...
- 6/5/2019
- by Elizabeth Weitzman
- The Wrap
We learn early in Framing John DeLorean that many films about the famed car maker have died on the vine in pre-production, yet Don Argot and Sheena Joyce try–with the help of Alec Baldwin, Morena Baccarin, Josh Charles, and make-up experts–to capture a guy that embodied the go-go 80s. The film is mildly successful at capturing the cult of personality from multiple sources including his son and daughter, his employees both in the U.S. and Ireland, TV appearances, and the surveillance video of an FBI sting that catapulted the playboy family man into infamy. The story is framed with reflective recreations with Baldwin and Baccarin playing, respectively, DeLorean and his model wife (25 years his junior) Cristina Ferrare.
Early in the film we’re teased by his son Zach that this story will have “cocaine, sports cars, bombs, hot chicks, Reagan, and Margaret Thatcher” and yet it’s...
Early in the film we’re teased by his son Zach that this story will have “cocaine, sports cars, bombs, hot chicks, Reagan, and Margaret Thatcher” and yet it’s...
- 5/4/2019
- by John Fink
- The Film Stage
Alec Baldwin, Morena Baccarin, Josh Charles star in the brand new trailer for Framing John Delorean.
It was announced earlier this week that the film would have it premiere at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival taking place April 24 – May 5. From Sundance Selects, Framing John Delorean opens in theaters and VOD June 7th.
Few left their mark on the automotive industry quite like John Z. DeLorean (1925-2005). As an engineer and executive at General Motors, beginning in the 1950s, he was at the helm of the industry’s successes of the era, including classic Pontiac and Chevrolet car models. Ascending to become the youngest division head in the Gm history, DeLorean broke away in 1973 to launch his own company. His signature stainless-steel DeLorean sports car was a notorious flop, though the model would later achieve pop culture infamy as the time-machine in Back to the Future.
In 1982, DeLorean was ensnared in scandal...
It was announced earlier this week that the film would have it premiere at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival taking place April 24 – May 5. From Sundance Selects, Framing John Delorean opens in theaters and VOD June 7th.
Few left their mark on the automotive industry quite like John Z. DeLorean (1925-2005). As an engineer and executive at General Motors, beginning in the 1950s, he was at the helm of the industry’s successes of the era, including classic Pontiac and Chevrolet car models. Ascending to become the youngest division head in the Gm history, DeLorean broke away in 1973 to launch his own company. His signature stainless-steel DeLorean sports car was a notorious flop, though the model would later achieve pop culture infamy as the time-machine in Back to the Future.
In 1982, DeLorean was ensnared in scandal...
- 3/7/2019
- by Michelle Hannett
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Alec Baldwin is taking on a different kind of project.
The actor, 60, stars as John DeLorean in Framing John DeLorean, a new documentary that pieces together archival footage as well as reenactments from throughout the late automaker’s life.
DeLorean flew through the ranks at General Motors and became obsessed with creating the ultimate sports car before it all came crashing down on faulty cocaine trafficking charges that damaged his reputation. He’s famously known for the iconic DeLorean time machine automobile in Back to the Future.
“I was contacted by John DeLorean approximately a year before he died, as I recall,...
The actor, 60, stars as John DeLorean in Framing John DeLorean, a new documentary that pieces together archival footage as well as reenactments from throughout the late automaker’s life.
DeLorean flew through the ranks at General Motors and became obsessed with creating the ultimate sports car before it all came crashing down on faulty cocaine trafficking charges that damaged his reputation. He’s famously known for the iconic DeLorean time machine automobile in Back to the Future.
“I was contacted by John DeLorean approximately a year before he died, as I recall,...
- 3/6/2019
- by Ale Russian
- PEOPLE.com
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