Movies & Entertainment News
Wednesday July 23
Indie prison comedy locks up Julianna Margulies, Alan Arkin
NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - "ER" veteran Julianna
Margulies, British actress Emily Mortimer and "Little Miss
Sunshine" Oscar-winner Alan Arkin have joined Andy Garcia in
the indie family comedy "City Island."
Garcia plays Vince Rizzo, a Bronx prison official who
realizes that an inmate (Steven Strait) is his secret love
child. His efforts to become his guardian lead to comic
complications. Margulies plays Rizzo's wife, Arkin plays a
teacher in his acting class, and Mortimer plays a fellow
student he befriends.
Garcia's daughter Dominik Garcia-Lorido plays his onscreen
daughter.
Shooting this week on location in the eponymous Bronx
fishing neighborhood where the story is set. Raymond De Felitta
("The Thing About My Folks") is directing.
Reuters/Hollywood Reporter