Once More with Feeling

The parallel life crises of a father and daughter take center stage in this engaging and endearing dramatic comedy by director Jeff Lipsky (Flannel Pajamas screened at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival).Frank Gregorio (Chazz Palminteri) is a successful psychiatrist, loving husband, and doting grandfather to the two children of his eldest daughter, Lana (Drea de Matteo). When the universe conspires to introduce him to karaoke through both a patient's parent issues and his precocious granddaughter's birthday party, Frank rediscovers a long-suppressed dream of becoming a professional singer. While his wife, Angelina (Maria Tucci), believes he's just practicing to sing at their younger daughter's upcoming wedding, Frank befriends a karaoke aficionado, Lydia (Linda Fiorentino), a femme fatale who has other plans for the would-be crooner. Simultaneously the sarcastic and harried Lana grows increasingly neurotic about her postpregnancy weight and flagging marriage and contemplates solutions in the form of plastic surgery and an affair with a hunky and charismatic police officer. Like father, like daughter? How will this close-knit Italian American family cope with the decisions Frank and Lana make?Brimming with wit, heart, and music, and featuring fine performances from its ensemble cast, Once More with Feeling perfectly captures the strength of family bonds in the face of life's temptations and trials.
CAST
Chazz Palminteri, Drea de Matteo, Linda Fiorentino, Lauren Bittner, Maria Tucci, Daisy Tahan, Gene Ruffini

Jeff Lipsky - Jeff Lipsky is cofounder of two successful film distribution companies, October Films and Lot 47 Films. Among the more well-known of the 265 films Lipsky has shepherded into the marketplace are My Life as a Dog, Stranger Than Paradise, and Sid & Nancy. In 1996 Lipsky wrote and directed his first feature film, Childhood's End, which was critically acclaimed and screened at many film festivals worldwide. His second film, Flannel Pajamas, screened at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival. Once More With Feeling, which Lipsky describes as a "unique musical dramedy," is his third film.

Screenings:

Mon. Jan 19 2:30 p.m. - ONCEM19PA Prospector Square Theatre, Park City
Tue. Jan 20 8:30 p.m. - ONCEM203N Holiday Village Cinema III, Park City
Fri. Jan 23 8:30 a.m. - ONCEM23PM Prospector Square Theatre, Park City
Sat. Jan 24 7:30 p.m. - ONCEM24BE Broadway Centre Cinemas IV, SLC