Indie prison comedy locks up Julianna Margulies, Alan Arkin

By Gregg Goldstein

NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - "ER" veteran Julianna Margulies, British actress Emily Mortimer and "Little Miss Sunshine" Oscar-winner Alan Arkin have joined Andy Garcia in the indie family comedy "City Island."

Garcia plays Vince Rizzo, a Bronx prison official who realizes that an inmate (Steven Strait) is his secret love child. His efforts to become his guardian lead to comic complications. Margulies plays Rizzo's wife, Arkin plays a teacher in his acting class, and Mortimer plays a fellow student he befriends.

Garcia's daughter Dominik Garcia-Lorido plays his onscreen daughter.

Shooting this week on location in the eponymous Bronx fishing neighborhood where the story is set. Raymond De Felitta ("The Thing About My Folks") is directing.

Reuters/Hollywood Reporter