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Strictly Sinatra

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A Scottish singer with Italian roots, Tony Cocozza (Ian Hart) sticks to performing the repertoire of Frank Sinatra and dreams of making it big. Tony gets a chance at gaining a wider audience when he earns the admiration of crime boss Chisolm (Brian Cox), who draws the vocalist into illegal activities. As Tony attempts to romance the lovely Irene (Kelly Macdonald) and hide his shady associations from his friend and piano player, Bill (Alun Armstrong), his mob ties start to complicate his life.

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Empire Magazine Rated: 2/5 Dec 30, 2006 Full Review Jamie Russell BBC.com Rated: 2/5 Jun 12, 2002 Full Review Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com Rated: 3/5 Sep 9, 2005 Full Review Scott Weinberg Apollo Guide Strictly Sinatra is certainly better than mediocre and it's often quite entertaining, but it's not precisely cause for a stampede to the video store. Rated: 70/100 Feb 21, 2003 Full Review Walter Chaw Film Freak Central A smalltime flick in which a smalltime crooner accidentally becomes a smalltime hood. Rated: 2.5/4 Aug 22, 2002 Full Review Robert Roten Laramie Movie Scope Capaldi has found a neat way to stand the mafia movie genre on its head at times. Rated: B Aug 9, 2002 Full Review Read all reviews

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Audience Member Written and directed by Peter Capaldi, who had won an Oscar for Live Action Short Film for Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life, a comic short he did for BBC Scotland. That enabled Capaldi to do a feature film, which was set in Capaldi's native Glasgow, and was set around the small time world of showbiz and the Glasgow mob. It's a good film, but it's a slight affair, although it could have been better. In Glasgow, small time lounge singer Toni Cocozza (Ian Hart) has a passion for singing Frank Sinatra songs, he dreams of becoming a famous singer in his own right. He ends up getting an offer from local Chisolm (Brian Cox) and his boss Connolly (Iain Cuthbertson), with the promise of getting more gigs in better venues, and maybe some TV appearances. But, Toni soon discovers he's being asked to do more than he bargained for, including helping the mob with some robberies. Toni's pianist Bill (Alun Armstrong) and his girlfriend and cigarette girl Irene (Kelly Macdonald) find out about Toni's double life, and they give Toni an ultimatum. It could have worked as a TV one-off, but it doesn't have the scope or ambition for a film, plus someone like Bill Forsyth could have added whimsy,humour and charm to the proceedings, but it doesn't know what it want it wants to be. As for Capaldi, he's directed for TV since, and has since become the new Doctor Who. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/05/23 Full Review Audience Member Somewhat surreal sweet fairytale of a young amateur crooner coerced into the criminal Glasgow gangster underworld. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/16/23 Full Review Audience Member Somewhat surreal sweet fairytale of a young amateur crooner coerced into the criminal Glasgow gangster underworld. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/22/23 Full Review Audience Member There's something about the movie that makes me thing about all the other ordinary movies, this movie has nothing special, nothing new, just one of those movies you see and hear about all day long. For a movie about one of my favorite artists they could at least played a song with his voice our even hang a poster at some fucking wall somewhere, afterall the title of the movie is 'Strictly Sinatra' but they dont go further then mentioning his name a few times and a guy with a soulless voice covering his songs. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/21/23 Full Review Audience Member Whether this is all true (depicted in the movie) about Sinatra or not, it was still an interesting film and kind of hard to believe. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/02/23 Full Review Audience Member The plot just doesn't work with the various themes involved, not to mention you need a translator half the time, even if you speak English! Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/06/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis A Scottish singer with Italian roots, Tony Cocozza (Ian Hart) sticks to performing the repertoire of Frank Sinatra and dreams of making it big. Tony gets a chance at gaining a wider audience when he earns the admiration of crime boss Chisolm (Brian Cox), who draws the vocalist into illegal activities. As Tony attempts to romance the lovely Irene (Kelly Macdonald) and hide his shady associations from his friend and piano player, Bill (Alun Armstrong), his mob ties start to complicate his life.
Director
Peter Capaldi
Producer
Ruth Kenley-Letts
Screenwriter
Peter Capaldi
Production Co
DNA Pictures International
Rating
R (Language)
Genre
Crime, Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date (Streaming)
Oct 8, 2020
Box Office (Gross USA)
$1.2K
Runtime
1h 37m
Sound Mix
Dolby Digital