ANGEL AND BIG JOE
Directed by Bert Salzman
Starring Paul Sorvino and Dadi Pinero
While everyone else in America was watching the American Idol finale, I was watching “Angel and Big Joe”, the winner of the Oscar for Best Short Film (Live Action) in 1975. I'm glad that I made this choice. This is a fantastic short film that deals with family and loyalty. Dadi Pinero plays Angel, a young migrant worker who is living with his mother and younger brother in the midwest while they wait for a call from his father telling them that he has found work in Arizona. Paul Sorvino plays Big Joe, a phone repairman who forms an unlikely bond with Angel. Through the course of the movie They grow very special to each other. Joe becomes a surrogate father to Angel, and Angel becomes a pseudo-son to Big Joe. This relationship is threatened when Angel's father calls to say that he's gotten work and the whole family needs to come to Arizona.
This movie is especially heartfelt. The relationship between the two main characters is especially sweet. Paul Sorvino and Dadi Pinero have wonderful chemistry together, even at times when the dialogue seems a bit stilted. Pinero is also guilty of overacting a bit, but it's his first movie credit, and he's very good most of the time, so it's easy to forgive.
Like most of the other shorts I've reviewed, I found this movie on youtube. It's almost a half-hour long. It's definitely worth watching. You won't regret it.
This movie won the Oscar for Best Live Action Short. The other nominees were “Conquest of Light”, “Dawn Flight”, “A Day in the Life of Bonnie Consolo”, and “Doubletalk”.
This review was written on May 21, 2008
Directed by Bert Salzman
Starring Paul Sorvino and Dadi Pinero
While everyone else in America was watching the American Idol finale, I was watching “Angel and Big Joe”, the winner of the Oscar for Best Short Film (Live Action) in 1975. I'm glad that I made this choice. This is a fantastic short film that deals with family and loyalty. Dadi Pinero plays Angel, a young migrant worker who is living with his mother and younger brother in the midwest while they wait for a call from his father telling them that he has found work in Arizona. Paul Sorvino plays Big Joe, a phone repairman who forms an unlikely bond with Angel. Through the course of the movie They grow very special to each other. Joe becomes a surrogate father to Angel, and Angel becomes a pseudo-son to Big Joe. This relationship is threatened when Angel's father calls to say that he's gotten work and the whole family needs to come to Arizona.
This movie is especially heartfelt. The relationship between the two main characters is especially sweet. Paul Sorvino and Dadi Pinero have wonderful chemistry together, even at times when the dialogue seems a bit stilted. Pinero is also guilty of overacting a bit, but it's his first movie credit, and he's very good most of the time, so it's easy to forgive.
Like most of the other shorts I've reviewed, I found this movie on youtube. It's almost a half-hour long. It's definitely worth watching. You won't regret it.
This movie won the Oscar for Best Live Action Short. The other nominees were “Conquest of Light”, “Dawn Flight”, “A Day in the Life of Bonnie Consolo”, and “Doubletalk”.
This review was written on May 21, 2008
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