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The Bread, My Sweet

In Italian a good man is a piece of bread.
Apr 21, 2001 · 1h 45m
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Romance

PLOT

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?

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CAST

Scott Baio
Dominic
Kristin Minter
Lucca
Rosemary Prinz
Bella
Shuler Hensley
Pino
John Seitz
Massimo
Billy Mott
Eddie
Adrienne Wehr
Tamela
Jennifer Martin
Maude
Directed by Melissa Martin

DETAILS

Status
Released
Original language
EN
Budget
$600,000
Revenue
$1,023,156
Country
US

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