The Bread, My Sweet
2001, Film, 105 min, Drama, Romance, English, United States, MoviePedia score 62
In Italian a good man is a piece of bread.
Dominic works round the clock: nights making biscotti for his family's bakery in a working-class Italian neighborhood in Pittsburgh, then days downtown where he's a specialist in firing people at a company that negotiates mergers. He's thrown for a loop with he learns that Bella, an elderly neighbor who's his family's closest friend, has but a few months to live. All her life, she's saved money in coffee cans for her daughter, Lucca's, wedding, but Lucca is off in foreign lands, initially as a Peace Corps volunteer, and doesn't need a man. Dominic vows to bring Lucca home and convince her to marry him to fulfill Bella's most fervent wish. What will Lucca say?
Directed by Melissa Martin
Cast
- Scott Baio as Dominic
- John Seitz as Massimo
- Kim Martin as Customer
- Zachary Mott as Eddie
- Shuler Hensley as Pino
- Jennie Martin as Maude
- Rose Bray as Rose
- John Bechtol as Jeffrey
- Rosemary Prinz as Bella
- Jody O'Donnell as Preston
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