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"The Sopranos" All Happy Families (2004)


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"The Sopranos" (1999): Season 5: Episode 4 -- In this video of The Sopranos, Tony and Carmella have to deal with their son?s lack of effort towards school. When Carmella is finally nice, Anthony pulls a fast one on her.

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David Chase (creator)
Toni Kalem (written by)
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Original Air Date:
28 March 2004 (Season 5, Episode 4)
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Plot:
Feech makes a pain of himself by trying to return to his past glory. Carmela tries to work with Anthony's teacher to rein in the out-of-control son. full summary | add synopsis
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Cast

  (Episode Credited cast)

James Gandolfini ... Tony Soprano

Lorraine Bracco ... Dr. Jennifer Melfi

Edie Falco ... Carmela Soprano

Michael Imperioli ... Christopher Moltisanti

Dominic Chianese ... Junior Soprano (credit only)

Steve Van Zandt ... Silvio Dante (as Steven Van Zandt)

Tony Sirico ... Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri

Robert Iler ... A.J. Soprano

Jamie-Lynn Sigler ... Meadow Soprano (as Jamie-Lynn DiScala)

Drea de Matteo ... Adriana La Cerva
Aida Turturro ... Janice Soprano (credit only)
John Ventimiglia ... Artie Bucco
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Ray Abruzzo ... Little Carmine Lupertazzi
Dennis Aloia ... Justin Blundetto
Kevin Aloia ... Jason Blundetto
Vincenzo Ameruoso ... Carl 'Fat Carl' Carlo

Peter Bogdanovich ... Dr. Elliot Kupferberg
Cameron Boyd ... Matt Testa
Bernie Brillstein ... Himself

Steve Buscemi ... Tony Blundetto

Chris Caldovino ... Billy Leotardo
Carl Capotorto ... Little Paulie Germani

Max Casella ... Benny Fazio

Chioma Chidebeln-Eze ... Starlight Orchestra
Caren Cole ... Starlight Orchestra

Victor Cruz ... First Valet

Patti D'Arbanville ... Lorraine Calluzzo

Jimmy DellaValle ... Gunman

Anthony Desio ... Jimmy La Manna
Andrea Eigner ... Starlight Orchestra

Frank Fortunato ... Jason Evanina
Joseph R. Gannascoli ... Vito Spatafore
Fran Gennuso ... Ms. Mary Bisacci

Michael Goldstrom ... Jonah Dangler

Gillien Goll ... Guest
Erin Henry ... Starlight Orchestra

Will Janowitz ... Finn DeTrolio

John Lanzillotto ... Mook
Joseph La Rocca ... Rich Alberga (as Joseph LaRocca)

Neil Levine ... Another Guest
David Little ... Asa Silverman

Robert Loggia ... Feech La Manna
John Marinacci ... Dealer

Joe Maruzzo ... Joe Peeps
Allison Miller ... Starlight Orchestra
Gabriel Millman ... Lem

Manu Narayan ... Sukhjit Khan

Michael Pemberton ... Supervisor Jimmy Curran
Danny Petrillo ... Teenage Tony Soprano
Deborah Pilley ... Starlight Orchestra
John Pleshette ... Dr. Ira Fried
Susan Pourfar ... Gillian

Jorge Pupo ... Second Valet
Cal Robertson ... Andrew

Valerie Romanoff ... Band Leader

Adam Rose ... Todd
David Lee Roth ... Himself

Joe Santos ... Angelo Garepe
Lenny Singer ... Uncle Jack

David Strathairn ... Robert Wegler
Lawrence Taylor ... Himself
Sue Terry ... Starlight Orchestra
Susan Terwilliger ... Starlight Orchestra
Frankie Valli ... Rusty Millio
Frank Vincent ... Phil Leotardo
Leon Wieseltier ... Stewart Silverman
Terence Winter ... Tom Amberson (as Terence Patrick Winter)

Stewart J. Zully ... Alan Ginsberg
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Fun Stuff

Goofs:
Continuity: A.J. is in the principal's office. When he gets up from his seat, he is wearing tan khaki pants but when we cut to a shot of him leaving the office, he is wearing dark jeans. more
Quotes:
Anthony 'A.J.' Soprano, Jr.: [happily] I might be learning disabled! more
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Goodbye, Feech, 15 May 2008
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Author: Max_cinefilo89 from Italy

After being mentioned briefly in Season 3, Feech La Manna (Robert Loggia) was introduced in the Season Five premiere, and proved himself a worthy presence on the show. Unfortunately, his stay wasn't very long, in fact All Happy Families features Loggia's last appearance in the series. According to David Chase, his departure had to do with memory problems (the actor was past his seventies), an ironic fact given the previous episode dealt with the possibility of Uncle Junior having Alzheimer's. Nonetheless, Loggia's four-episode guest spot remains one of the highlights of the show's great history, and his exit is every bit as good as his entrance.

The need to take Loggia off the series is narratively transformed into Tony's need to get rid of Feech, whose attempts to get his old power back is causing more trouble than anything, and with Christopher's help the nuisance is dealt with rather painlessly. Meanwhile, the war that's raging between Little Carmine and Johnny Sack gets uglier with the killing of the former's loan-shark, and on the private front AJ's mediocre grades lead to Carmela having a sit-down, and perhaps something else, with the school counselor, Robert Wegler (David Strathairn).

Aside from Loggia leaving the series, the most notable achievement of this episode is Strathairn's riveting performance: best known in mainstream cinema for playing unpleasant fellas, such as Kathy Bates' abusive husband in Dolores Claiborne or, most famously, Kim Basinger's vicious pimp in the extraordinary L.A. Confidential, he joins TV's best crime drama playing a nice guy, albeit with a few characterial flaws, and gives a humane portrayal justly remembered by Empire magazine as one of the show's five best guest spots (the other four, in case you're wondering, are Robert Patrick, Jon Favreau, Ben KIngsley and the already mentioned Loggia). His story arc allows the writers to move away a little from the gangster universe, which is always refreshing, and also sheds new light on the personality of Mrs. Soprano, a quite different woman since she dumped Tony.

The title may be highly ironic (no one's really happy in the episode), but hey, at least the viewers are satisfied. And for those lamenting the disappearance of a superb recurring presence, consider this: his replacement is just as marvelous.

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