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Uncle Nino

This is so cliched, cloying and forcibly sentimental, it crushes the very spirit it means to uplift. The title character (Pierrino Mascarino), described as an “elderly Italian peasant” in the press notes, visits his squabbling family in suburban Chicago and teaches them the meaning of life. Mainly he does this by saying things such as “Why you do?” and always being accompanied by the sort of “Italian” music you might hear at the Olive Garden.

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