{"id":1939393,"date":"2023-05-27T05:27:27","date_gmt":"2023-05-27T09:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sebastian-maniscalcos-about-my-father-is-an-immigrant-love-letter\/"},"modified":"2023-05-27T05:27:27","modified_gmt":"2023-05-27T09:27:27","slug":"sebastian-maniscalcos-about-my-father-is-an-immigrant-love-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sebastian-maniscalcos-about-my-father-is-an-immigrant-love-letter\/","title":{"rendered":"Sebastian Maniscalco\u2019s \u2018About My Father\u2019 Is An Immigrant Love Letter\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsebastian-maniscalcos-about-my-father-is-an-immigrant-love-letter%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1939393&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">An early scene in the new comedy \u201cAbout My Father\u201d speaks volumes about both the film and the patriarch in question.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sebastian Maniscalco, playing a fictionalized version of himself, notes how his Italian father expected him to work, and work hard, every hour possible as a young boy. So we see a flashback of the lad washing his father\u2019s car at an age when most boys would be driving a Tonka truck over a mound of dirt.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The snippet is played for laughs, another sign of his pappy\u2019s immigrant mindset. The moment comes back early and often, ultimately part of an homage to his father\u2019s commendable work ethic that allowed his son to thrive.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hard work. Sacrifice. Family. Loyalty. Respect. And, of course, a ripe sense of humor to balance all of the above.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cAbout My Father\u201d packs all of the above into its crisp running time, and the comedian\u2019s intentions couldn\u2019t be more clear.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It\u2019s Maniscalco\u2019s biggest screen role to date, arriving at a time when theatrical comedies are few and far between. And the comic co-wrote the film and narrates those early scenes, making it as close to his voice as the big screen will allow.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For Maniscalco, hard work is in his DNA thanks to his immigrant father, Salvo, brought to life in the film by Oscar-winner Robert De Niro.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_558303\" style=\"width: 873px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-558303\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Dia Dipasupil\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The actor certainly lives up to his dad\u2019s life lessons off screen. He not only tours the country as a major stand-up attraction, is making his debut as a leading man and co-hosts \u201cThe Pete &#038; Sebastian Show\u201d podcast (or \u2018cast to long-time listeners) but will be seen in a new HBO series later this year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cHow to Be a Bookie,\u201d from prolific showrunner Chuck Lorre (\u201cTwo and a Half Men\u201d), finds him playing a bookie balancing life, family and the legalization of sports gambling.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">That\u2019s on top of minor roles in films like \u201cGreen Book,\u201d \u201cThe Irishman\u201d and this Spring\u2019s \u201cSomewhere in Queens.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cAbout My Father\u201d is his bid to transcend character parts to films where his name is above the title. And, in doing so, he\u2019s brought significant segments of his biography to the screen, hoping his fans will see his stand-up brand in every sequence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Chances are, even those new to Maniscalco\u2019s humor will bond with the material in play. That\u2019s even more true for conservatives, who rarely see their values embodied on screens large or small.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Maniscalco plays a hotel employee eager to find the right moment to propose to his girlfriend Ellie Collins (Leslie Bibb). That chance arrives when her uber-wealthy family invites him to their July 4<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> gala. As plot devices would have it, Sebastian\u2019s father Salvo (De Niro) tags along, setting up a culture clash for the ages.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Salvo insists on paying his own way whenever possible, squirms at the family\u2019s exorbitant wealth and worries his son might not fit into the curious clan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We know where everything is headed, but \u201cAbout My Father\u201d keeps select themes front and center.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sebastian cringes at his father\u2019s old-school ways, but he understands those curious antics shaped his career and sense of honor.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mild story spoilers ahead:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Even the rich Collins clan, mocked without the venom aimed at the affluent in 2022 films like \u201cThe Menu\u201d and \u201cTriangle of Sadness,\u201d get a measure of humanity for putting family first. The parents think dropping a few meaty checks can make their daughter, and her art career, afloat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">And they\u2019re wrong.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ellie bristles at their forced generosity. Sebastian, cut from the same moral cloth, thinks twice about the Collins\u2019 significant offer to boost his hotelier career.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The \u201cFast &#038; Furious\u201d franchise is all about family, too, but that saga cares as much about car chases as it does those blood ties.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cAbout My Father\u201d honors family at every step without sugarcoating the inevitable results. Parents can embarrass us at times. Children, especially the fully-grown kind, forget the value of gratitude.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">None of this would matter if \u201cAbout My Father\u201d failed to make us laugh. Maniscalco proves he can anchor the material without falling back on his exaggerated comic shtick. Instead, he leans into the story\u2019s grace notes, like how he sprays cologne into the air and gently wades into the mist \u2026 just like his Pappy taught him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Immigrants are often in the news for all the wrong reasons, flooding the southern border insisting we make way for them. Many are hard-working, others not so much.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cAbout My Father\u201d isn\u2019t a Culture War treatise. Maniscalco\u2019s stage routine is mostly clean and apolitical, and he\u2019s not about to change that now. Nor does he throw a single sucker punch at Heartland USA, assuming you forgive a throwaway moment set at a same-sex wedding proposal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Maniscalco knows he wouldn\u2019t be where he is today, professionally or personally, if not for his real-life pa, a Chicago-based hairdresser. Hard work pays off, especially for immigrants hungry for the American dream.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It might even make you the star of your own life story.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An early scene in the new comedy \u201cAbout My Father\u201d speaks volumes about both the film and the patriarch in question. Sebastian Maniscalco, playing a fictionalized version of himself, notes how his Italian father expected him to work, and work hard, every hour possible as a young boy. 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