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- 2023
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- Roadside Attractions
- 1 h 46 m
- 2023
- R
- Roadside Attractions
- 1 h 46 m
Summary Leo Russo (Ray Romano) lives a simple life in Queens, New York with his wife Angela (Laurie Metcalf), their shy but talented son “Sticks” (Jacob Ward), and Leo’s close-knit network of Italian-American relatives and neighborhood friends. Happy enough working at the family construction business alongside his father (Tony Lo Bianco) and you...
Directed By: Ray Romano
Written By: Mark Stegemann, Ray Romano
- 2023
- R
- Roadside Attractions
- 1 h 46 m
- 2023
- R
- Roadside Attractions
- 1 h 46 m
Somewhere in Queens
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6.1
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Summary Leo Russo (Ray Romano) lives a simple life in Queens, New York with his wife Angela (Laurie Metcalf), their shy but talented son “Sticks” (Jacob Ward), and Leo’s close-knit network of Italian-American relatives and neighborhood friends. Happy enough working at the family construction business alongside his father (Tony Lo Bianco) and you...
Directed By: Ray Romano
Written By: Mark Stegemann, Ray Romano
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 16 Critic Reviews
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44% Positive
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56% Mixed
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 16 Critic Reviews
61
44% Positive
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
56% Mixed
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9 Reviews
0% Negative
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Somewhere in Queens is a low-stakes slice of life for much of its runtime, with most of the actual conflict stemming from a questionable decision Leo makes to ensure his son’s success. That doesn’t necessarily make it feel slight, however, as the film is such an affectionate love letter to the Italian American families who populate the eponymous borough that you don’t mind simply sharing the dinner table with them.
It’s a film that doesn’t feel the pressure of reminding the audience that it’s a comedy, which makes the story and the dysfunctional—but very loving—family that much more endearing and authentic to real life.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 11 User Ratings
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36% Positive
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 11 User Ratings
6.1
36% Positive
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55% Mixed
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9% Negative
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IN A NUTSHELL:
The story is about Leo and Angela Russo who live a simple life in Queens, New York, surrounded by their overbearing Italian-American family. When their son “Sticks” finds success on his high-school basketball team, Leo tears the family apart trying to make it happen.
Actor, comedian Ray Romano knocked it out of the park with this thoughtful family drama as the director and the co-writer. He also stars in it! Everyone DOES love Raymond! (Are you a fan of that popular TV show?) His writing partner was Mark Stegemann. Well done, boys.
THINGS I LIKED:
The cast is superb and includes Academy Award & Emmy Award winner Ray Romano, Oscar-nominee Laurie Metcalf, comedian Sebastian Maniscalco, Jennifer Esposito, Tony Lo Bianco, Jacob Ward, Sadie Stanley, and more.
Ray Romano and Laurie Metcalf work so well together. They illustrate the perfect push and pull of a marriage that has gone through challenges in life, yet they’re still together, trying to keep their vows and evolve through life.
Sebastian Maniscalco is such a natural, so I’m thrilled that his stand-up comedy is taking him to the Big Screen. In this film, he has a very small role, but if you’re a fan of his like I am, check out his new movie called About My Father where he’s the star.
With all of the high-tech, superhero movies with loud sounds and flashing lights, it’s nice to watch a movie about real people just living life.
The dialogue is realistic.
The actors don’t look like slick Hollywood celebrities, but instead, like real salt-of-the-earth people.
Wonderful soundtrack.
I love it when movies reference other movies. In this movie, Ray Romano’s character quotes lines from the movie Rocky. The camera also quickly pans those famous steps that Rocky runs up and down in Philadelphia when certain characters visit the city.
I loved the poetry element of the story.
All of the characters are deliciously flawless. We get to see each of them learn and grow together. Beautiful.
I absolutely adore movies that have carefully presented seemingly insignificant lines or moments that turn out to be important in the end, wrapping them all up with a clever bow. This movie does just that.
THINGS I DIDN’T LIKE:
I don’t enjoy the constant bickering and loud screaming, yet I also recognize that’s the delightfully dynamics of many Italian families.
TIPS FOR PARENTS:
Profanity and F-bombs
A lot of talk about intimate relations
Talk of cancer
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In today's movie world it's difficult to find a movie with believable people and believable relationships. After all the diversity boxes are filled it can still be a good movie but it doesn't feel real. This movie feels real and I'll tell you why: I cared about them and wonder how they're doing today.
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Beyond the often hilarious dialogue and some slapstick humor, when Somewhere in Queens gets into serious territory, including Leo possibly having a fling with an attractive widow (Jennifer Esposito), the material is handled deftly and with intelligence and care.
Somewhere in “Queens” lies a stronger, more unique and inspiring story about family, culture and the place we call home. It’s too bad Romano didn’t fully find it.
You can see the conflicts and dramatic beats coming from a mile away, and the corniness of the ending is absolutely immeasurable. It’s an inoffensive and even likable picture, but not a particularly compelling one.
Here, Romano sticks to the outer-borough Italian American milieu of his series. The results are mixed.
Many of the character actors occasionally elevate the film above some of the more clichéd family humor.
Embora o filme quase se perca numa série de temas emanados por aquela família, como a síndrome do ninho vazio e a projeção das expectativas dos pais no filho, bem como um romance que é mais realista do que a média vista nos filmes, com um casal bem simpático, gostei de como toda essa profusão de temas fez um mosaico humanizado daquela família, por mais que certas abordagens soassem superficiais. É um filme leve e despretencioso, uma família de classe média típica, e consegue passar sinceridade.
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Ray Romano and Laurie Metcalf play a believeable married couple with the type of problems any family anywhere can relate to. I was very engaged early on in this movie until a couple of plot twists occurred, and the movie lost it's original focus, and it veered into Movie-of the Week territory. I enjoyed the first half much more than the second half, but I felt the acting all around was better than this movie.
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