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This film does a great disservice to the legacy of Jack Durant but also the restaurant that bears his name to this day. The story is convoluted and uses flashbacks and dream sequences too much making the main story disjointed. The IMDB reviews praising this film are mostly from Travis Mills, the director or people he's conned into thinking he's some great filmmaker. If not for relentless self aggrandizing promotion this would be relegated to the scrap heap of failures. The restaurant and estate of Jack Durant wanted nothing to do with this film and the critics who've seen it think it misses badly. In the end you are better off avoiding this since at the end you'll probably wonder what you just saw, and not in a good way.

I'm biased since I actually appeared in this film. But for what it was and the lengthy struggle it took to complete this film, it deserves high praise. I have a copy of the DVD and it's worth it if only for the bonus features and outtakes. Spoiler: the police get involved during shooting of a scene. If you want a fun and ambitious film made on a very small budget then this is it. Just enjoy it for what it is.