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Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780783134864
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 078313486X
Label: Hbo Home Video
Manufacturer: Hbo Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Hbo Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: July 26, 2005
Running Time: 97 minutes
Sales Rank: 59479
Studio: Hbo Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: February 11, 2003
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Tragedy meets comedy when a bumbling yet passionate man travels to America from Italy to help save his family's firework business and all hell breaks loose. Family and loyalty, life and death, dreams and answered prayers...that's The Whole Shebang, a funny, heartwarming tale about a family steeped in tradition, where love is in the air and the sparks fly. Starring Emmy Winner Stanley Tucci and Bridget Fonda.
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Rating: - entertaining, nostalgic, leaves you feeling good
I have always liked Stanley Tucci, although it was hard to recognize him with hair. It was a very good romantic comedy and his role is one of the reasons. This is a lighted hearted Godfather; success in America, typical immigrant family conflicts, romance, and it has fireworks.
Rating:  - "IT'S TUTTO TUCCI!!!"
IT'S ALL TUCCI! HE PLAYS A CHARACTER THATS ACROSS BETWEEN,ROBERTO BENIGNI&PETER SELLERS.
STANLEY TUCCI IS A COMIC GENIUS! I FOUND THIS MOVIE BY ACCIDENT. I WANTED TO KNOW WHAT
ANNA MARIA ALBERGHETTI WAS UP TO THESE DAY'S. BESIDES MS. ALBERGHETTI ,TWO MORE OF MY
FAVORITE ACTRESS'S ARE,TALIA SHIRE AND BRIDGET FONDA. ALSO AWARD WINNING ACTOR
GIAN CARLO GIANINNI.
THIS DVD GO'S IN MY COLLECTION WITH,"MOONSTUCK","RETURN TO ME" AND THE
"QUIET MAN","MARTY".;COMEDY,TRAGEDY,LOVE AND A HAPPY ENDING! IT'S NOT TV.
"IT'S HBO!" THANK YOU HBO!!! THIS FIREWORKS FAMILY IS A HAPPY BUT NUTTY GROUP OF PEOPLE! IF
SOMEONE TOLD YOU THAT THIS FILM WAS DIRECTED BY FELLINI. AND YOU DIDN'T KNOW HE DIED
IN 1993...YOU WOULD BELIEVE THEM. THIS FILM WAS DIRECTED BY,GEORGE ZALOOM.
Rating: - For Italians and Others
The HBO-produced "Whole Shebang" is a light comedy that not only features Stanley Tucci in yet another marvelous performance, but also shows that when the roots of familiar stereotypes are actually shown and explored, the results strengthen the work, rather than seeming hackneyed or insulting.
The film opens with a good-looking, but unnamed young man working on what at first appears to be a cooking demonstration gone mad. As we come to realize that he is mixing up fireworks and not a play-dough meatloaf, he is interrupted by an unnamed female whose fevered attentions are those unfortunately limited to only new girlfriends and illicit lovers. Sadly, as the sparks fly the whole place explodes in a powerful display of pyrotechnics and the lovers go boom. It is only in the aftermath that we learn that the lothario was "Frank Bazini, Jr.," and yes, he was cheating on his wife with a local strumpet. The Bazini family has been making fireworks for generations, we learn, and the family patriarch decides to reach out to the clan in the old country for a new heir for his crumbling empire.
It is at this point that the film's genius begins to come forth, for we are transported to Naples, where we meet Giovanni (Tucci) a touching, lovable loser who can't even commit suicide successfully. Naples holding no promise of any improvement in his fortunes anytime soon, Giovanni decamps to Neptune, New Jersey, to take up his new life and responsibilities. The scene where he meets his "new" ... Read More
Rating: - A Picturesque Italian American Frolic
THE WHOLE SHEBANG is a movie made for television, a category that in some circles places a hex, but in the case of HBO films it is a definite plus! This little unpretentious story plays like a sweet foreign film like 'Life is Beautiful' and is directed (George Zaloom) with zest and played by an all star cast that makes it a fine evening's entertainment.
The Bazzini family of Neptune, New Jersey owns a fireworks business in competition with the Zito family whose entrepreneurial instincts are decidedly more 'American'. The head of the Bazinni family is Pop (Giancarlo Giannini) and Contessa (Talia Shire) and the heir apparent is Frank (Christian Boucher) who is a fine pyrotechnician but is unfaithful to his non-Italian wife Val (Bridget Fonda). As the story opens Frank is perfecting the 'blue' firework and while working he is distracted by his latest lady conquest who diverts his attention causing the whole Bazinni Fireworks Plant to literally blow up. Though the family is devastated at Frank's death, Pop looks for the next head of the company to replace Frank, and at the wake the Zito family Lady Zito (Anna Maria Alberghetti looking terrific!) inserts her son Joey (Anthony DeSando) into an evil-planned courtship of the newly widowed Val in hopes of overtaking the Bazinni business.
Meanwhile, in Naples Italy we meet Giovanni Bazinni (Stanley Tucci, in fine form as a comedian!), a cousin to the American Bazinnis and a poor cafe musician unlucky in love and life. He repeatedly ... Read More
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