My Uncle Rafael (2012/TNP Films/MVD DVD)

Picture: B- Sound: B- Extras: C Film: D

After about ten minutes of this poor attempt at a romantic comedy you'll be saying Uncle Uncle! A budding young producer (Rachel Blanchard) persuades Rafael to star in her first project, a TV pilot about an Armenian uncle who must help a soon-to-be-divorced couple; the woman is about to remarry a sketchy lawyer.

Rafael, who is universally tolerated or beloved, works to solve everyone's concerns, preaches the importance of love and responsibility and reconnects with his go-getter son (also played by Mr. Pirhamzei).

The cast is a professional bunch with recognizable faces (the highlight being Tim Burton regular character actor Missi Pyle as the woman, and funny guy Joe Lo Truglio as a priest). The film suffers from mediocre acting, old age makeup, and cinematography and the bottom line: it just isn't that funny.

Sound and Picture on the disc is average with a standard definition transfer with a 1.85:1 widescreen anamorphic aspect ratio and a lossy Dolby Digital 5.1 track.

Extras include a Trailer, Behind The Scenes, Photo Gallery, and Deleted Scenes.

- James Harland Lockhart V

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