Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Today's special [videorecording] / Inimitable Pictures presents ; a Sweet 180 production ; screenplay by Aasif Mandvi and Jonathan Bines ; directed by David Kaplan.

Publisher, Date:

[United States] : New Video Group, 2011.

Description:

1 videodisc (99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary:

Samir is a traditionally trained chef who works as the sous chef in an exclusive restaurant in Manhattan, but when he learns he's been turned down for an expected promotion, he leaves in a huff and isn't asked to return. Samir considers heading for Europe to attend a culinary academy, but his plans quickly change when he learns that his father has suffered a severe heart attack and someone needs to look after the family business, a dingy Indian restaurant in Queens that's fallen on hard times.

Target Audience Note:

Rating: R ; for language.

Subjects:

Cooks -- Drama.

Indian cooking -- Drama.

Feature films.

Fiction films.

Comedy films.

Other Author:

Mandvi, Aasif, 1966- Sakina's restaurant.

Wrembel, Stephane.

Tumblety, David.

Bines, Jonathan.

Corrigan, Kevin, 1969-

Winters, Dean, 1964-

Patel, Harish, 1957-

Jaffrey, Madhur, 1933-

Kaplan, David, 1964-

Weixler, Jess.

Shah, Naseeruddin.

Flatiron Film Company.

New Video Group.

Notes:

Originally released as a motion picture in 2010.

Based on the play Sakina's restaurant, by Aasif Mandvi.

Produced by Lillian Lasalle, Nimitt Mankad ; cinematographer, David Tumblety ; original score by Stephane Wrembel ; editors, Chris Houghton, Rich Fox ; production designer, Darcy C. Scanlin.

Aasif Mandvi, Jess Weixler, Madhur Jaffrey, Harish Patel, Kevin Corrigan, Dean Winters, Naseeruddin Shah.

DVD, widescreen.

ISBN:

1422927024

9781422927021

Publisher Number:

244100

Other Number:

743937219

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

298033

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

DVD MOVIE Today's

Medium:

[videorecording]