this be an excellent little movie which look like it about food but be actually about the search for success and the striving for excellence in a crass and uncaring world and and brotherly devotion . two italian brother run a little restaurant serve superb food a a labor of love and but it fail and in contrast to the wildly successful spaghetti emporium down the street with execrable food but which be rake in the big buck . the story line set in the late 50 u. s. a. be paper thin and but the movie be populate with interesting and likable people and the tale be lovingly tell with an excellent script and superb act all around and especially from the two brother and from ian holm and the british actor and who do an unexpectedly great job a the owner of the red sauce place ( ian holm play an italian . yes and stunningly ) . care seriously about food do help one to appreciate this flick while i have never see the preparation and serving of food present so beautifully and lovingly in a movie . the final and wordless scene and in which a simple omelette be prepared and the brother express their reconciliation and be and for me and one of the most eloquently poetic coda i have ever see . this be a warm hearted movie with a great deal of humor that rate an a plus .