Two Family House is a 2000 film. It was written and directed by Raymond De Felitta (Café Society). The film won the Audience Award at Sundance 2000. Many of the film's actors later reached national prominence as part of the HBO cable television series The Sopranos, including Michael Rispoli, Kathrine Narducci, Matt Servitto, Vincent Pastore and Joseph R. Gannascoli (Jackie Aprile, Sr., Charmaine Bucco, Agent Harris, Big Pussy, and Vito Spatafore,...
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Two Family House is a 2000 film. It was written and directed by Raymond De Felitta (Café Society). The film won the Audience Award at Sundance 2000. Many of the film's actors later reached national prominence as part of the HBO cable television series The Sopranos, including Michael Rispoli, Kathrine Narducci, Matt Servitto, Vincent Pastore and Joseph R. Gannascoli (Jackie Aprile, Sr., Charmaine Bucco, Agent Harris, Big Pussy, and Vito Spatafore, respectively, on The Sopranos). The songs on the film's soundtrack were done by John Pizzarelli and his trio, a jazz recording artist.
An unseen narrator looks back to the year 1956, on Staten Island in New York, to one Buddy Visalo (Rispoli), an Italian guy with "Ralph Kramdenesque" dreams. Buddy is a wannabe crooner (with a voiceover provided by Andrew Poretz). Buddy had nearly been discovered by Arthur Godfrey ten years earlier (shown in flashback) when he performed at a USO show while in the service. His fiancée, Estelle (Narducci), gave...
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