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It's no surprise this film won the Austin Film Festival Audience Award. It's hilarious and just realistic enough to make anyone who has worked in the restaurant business nod knowingly (or cringe, if an owner.) The story moves along quickly as we follow the trials and triumphs of of some dedicated, but occasionally clueless competitors. James Cosmos is great as the old New Englander judge and the rest of the cast shines. The writing is crisp and strikes a perfect balance of sincerity and silliness. The local color shown through the on-location filming on Cape Cod gives the film an authentic New England feeling and adds to the realism of the competition. These guys know their way around a fryolator! The 43rd Golden Scallop does for the restaurant business what "Best in Show" did for the Show dog circuit. I loved it.

The Golden Scallop is a hilarious and often crazy look at a Seafood cooking competition in the Northeast. The cast works brilliantly together, great chemistry and I wondered how they were able to get so many talented people, not being a big budget film. It was impressive seeing how they filmed the cooking scenes too, they looked so great. James Cosmo as the judge comes up with a gem of a performance and my other favorite character is Tobias Jelinek as Seth the fry cook, who also hit it out of the park.

If you are a fan of Napoleon Dynamite, you will probably love this film. In my opinion it is right up there with the Christopher Guest films and one of my absolute favorite comedies I have seen in the last year.