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Uncle Nino

[2005, Movie]

Uncle Nino: Review

Family business: Pierrino Mascarino and Joe Mantegna

Heartwarming is not always a bad thing. Consider this family film from writer-director Robert Shallcross: It's not only warm and fuzzy in all the right places, it's something that the whole family might actually enjoy. For the first time in his long life, elderly ferry-boat driver Nino Micelli (Pierrino Mascarino) is leaving his idyllic hometown in Tuscany, Italy and coming to the United States, specifically to Glenview, IL, where the family of his late, emigrant brother now ... read more