Raymond de Felitta

City Island is a light “family” romance that goes about as far as its novel location — an island neighborhood tucked in the middle of New York City — and a good cast can carry it. It's about a big Italian-American family, the...

Andy Garcia at the Elysian Hotel on March 23. (Photo for the Tribune by Joel Wintermantle) The scene at the swanky Elysian Hotel bar on March 23 looked as if it could have come out of a movie. More specifically, an Andy Garcia movie. The 53-year-old...

Sweet but dramatically inert, "The Thing About My Folks" is writer-star Paul Reiser's seriocomic valentine to his parents. While stocked with simple, earnest observations on love, relationships and family, the film's haphazard plotting and often...

Friday October 6, 2000      Raymond De Felitta's "Two Family House" is as fragile as a soap bubble--one falsemove and it bursts. That it never does only adds to its abundant pleasures, its rich, rueful humor, poignancy and tenderness.      Sharp...