The Engagement Ring

2005

Action / Comedy / Drama / Romance

8
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 63%
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 63% · 500 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.4/10 10 740 740

Plot summary

A long-lost engagement ring still divides childhood sweethearts who are now in their golden years. Now, her daughter (Heaton) and his nephew meet and find that their attraction is hindered by the old feud.

Director

Steven Schachter Photo
Steven Schachter

Top cast

Lainie Kazan Photo
Lainie Kazan as Alicia Rosa Anselmi
Chuck Shamata Photo
Chuck Shamata as Johnny Anselmi
Vincent Spano Photo
Vincent Spano as Tony Di Cenzo
Frank C. Turner Photo
Frank C. Turner as Abe-present
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758.9 MB
1280*714
English 2.0
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23.976 fps
1 hr 29 min
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1.44 GB
1920*1072
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 29 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by emansur

People in Northern CA don't have NYC accents

It's hilarious when NY filmmakers make films set in Northern California, with Northern California based characters. They cast New York actors who have NYC accents and mannerisms. It doesn't work. People who grow up in California wine country don't talk like New Yorkers or wear gold chain necklaces. We've also never used the word "palooka." Please stop.
Reviewed by lavatch 1 / 10

Bah! Humbug! This Holiday Film Was a Stinker!

I'm sorry to sound like a Scrouge, but this TNT film was a holiday stinker! The film's premise had good potential: From overseas, an American GI in World War II sends his high school sweetheart a marriage proposal and an engagement ring, which unfortunately are lost in the mail. When the letter and the ring are miraculously discovered forty years later, one would expect that the revelation would clear up the mystery and end the long-standing feud between two Italian families. But when Alicia (Lainie Kazan) learns about the letter and the ring sent by her former beau Nick (Tony Lo Bianco), her inexplicable response is to continue to be angry at him! This made no sense because it wasn't Nick's fault that the letter and the ring were lost. The subplot of the couple in the next generation (Patricia Heaton and Vincent Spano) also seemed forced and not believable. There were moments in this film that resembled French farce, then turned immediately into Greek tragedy!The dialogue was terrible, and the cast seemed to be reading their lines, as opposed to performing the action and connecting with each other in their relationships. I almost wished that the actors could have improvised the scenes around the basic romantic premise, instead of forcing the emotional life and giving us the impression that they were reading the insipid lines from cue cards. Before the film began, TNT offered this tagline as a teaser: "The holidays are for bringing people together." As it turned out, that line was better than any of the scripted dialogue in the film, and the best character was the grandma mainly because she was mute!
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