How to Go Out on a Date in Queens

Fantastic! Amazing! Hilarious! Funny! I could watch it over and over. It's a MUST see! I'm taking scene study classes with Michelle Danner at The Edgemar Center. She brings a wealth of knowledge and well rounded experience to the class. I have learned SO much from her. Because she has a great directorial eye. Her attention to detail is very supportive. Michelles' feedback is excellent. I always feel like her criticism is constructive and I never feel like she is talking to down to me. I recently got a callback for a feature film that I went in for. I wouldn't have gotten it without her. I've studied with a lot of teachers in Los Angeles and she at the top of my list. She genuinely cares about actors.

This script is terrible. The plot makes no sense. The characters have zero depth.

But if you watch the whole movie, you will learn that good actors are worth whatever they get paid.

Jason Alexander's character is just as poorly written as the others. His dialogue is just as dumb as the rest of the script. But his scenes are at least mildly interesting because he knows how to play a character and is able to sound like a human being.

Most of the rest of the cast can't meet this mark. There are one or two reasonable attempts. Allison Eastwood is fine. Rob Estes does not embarrass himself. But anyone else in the cast is trying a little too hard to sound a little too Noo Yawk and they don't know which syllables to accentuate or how to express a feeling other than mild exasperation.

(Ron Perlman is a pro of course too, but he barely speaks and at least one of his lines is laugh out loud funny but not for the right reason.)

I don't know if Alexand and or Pearlman were working off a debt or paying back a favor but this reminds me of Sir Ben Kingley taking the part in Christopher Moltisanti's Cleaver. IYKYK.

What a delightful movie. I laughed, I cried, and I recommended it to all of my friends. It reminded me of MOONSTRUCK.

The directing was spot on, and Michelle Danner did an excellent job weaving an emotionally enticing story that really focused on the relationships between the characters.

I was equally impressed with the acting and thought that this was a great role for Jason Alexander. Rob Estes and Brian Drillinger were also great additions to the cast and I found them both really entertaining.

I would highly recommend this movie to anyone out there looking for a great film to discover.

Queens, a borough of NYC, has an intriguing sub-culture, if this movie is accurate. It aspires to being as "hip" as Manhattan but doesn't quite get there. In this tale, Artie (Rob Estes) is a top tier auto mechanic and body repairman, still in rather deep depression after losing his wife two years ago. The front office man at the shop, Stan (Brian Dillinger) is a know-it-all who has been dating, as he says, for 16 years and wants to set Artie up with a blind date. Artie resists until he sees a dove land on a car. Believing it to be a sign from heaven, Art agrees to meet a friend of Stan's current girlfriend, Amy (Kimberly Paisley-Williams). Before the big event, Stan overloads Artie on how to make the date a success. But, when the foursome actually meet, things don't go very smoothly. Artie does have eyes for the bartender, Karen (Alison Eastwood), as the night moves along. Meanwhile, the restaurant manager, who longs to plan a wedding, is upset that her fiancé, Frankie (Esai Morales) is going to bet their wedding money on the Superbowl. Finally, a two bit gambler, Johnny (Jason Alexander) is in deep debt to the Russian mafia and may have only one hope of repaying them before they make him suffer the "ultimate interest rate". This terrifies his lady, Ann Marie (Christine Dunford) who wants to marry him. Henchman Vito (Ron Perlman) may be on his way to find Johnny. How will romance thrive in Queens? This interesting film has a good cast, a unique locale, fun accents, well-chosen costumes, a competent script and so on. No, its not a light-hearted romantic comedy, as one might suppose. However, there are amusing moments, amid some very touching and very scary ones. Those viewers who like the offbeat flicks will most likely want to make a date with Queens.

Being a huge fan of the Seinfeld series it seemed only natural to want to see this movie staring Jason Alexander as soon as it was out. I didn't quite know what to expect of it but I wasn't surprised to find it to be a good movie. It's about the dating world with its ups and downs and it makes a strong case in the end. It was nice to see a movie really about something and who's producers and also the actors staring in it certainly weren't interested in just the money. It's not a commercial movie but that doesn't make it just on bit less interesting. Jason Alexander's role is a lot different from what he did in the Seinfeld series but he pulled it of in a true Hollywood star's manner. Him staring in this movie is what made me see it in the first place and I can say it's a great movie. Really really worth seeing! 8/10 for this one.