Dinner Rush

Dinner Rush, directed by advertising director Bob Giraldi and written by Brian S. Kalata and Rick Shaughnessy, is a 2 million dollar independent film about a restaurant owner and his chef son in New York's Tribeca neighborhood. The film was shot almost entirely at Gigino Trattoria, a real Tribeca restaurant Giraldi himself owned; Giraldi was a successful restaurateur in his own right. Structurally, the story unfolds over a single evening, apart from a brief opening, though the actual shoot took a total of 21 days rather than a single night. The film grossed 638,227 dollars in the US. Who it's for: anyone curious about an independent film an advertising director shot in his own real restaurant, depicting a single evening on screen despite a 21 day shoot. Who it's not for: viewers looking for a big studio budget production, since this is a low budget, single location independent film.