The Bread, My Sweet (2001)

04/21/2001 1h 45m

In Italian a good man is a piece of bread.

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Overview

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 Ages at Release

Scott Baio

as Dominic

Born 09/22/1960, age

Kristin Minter

as Lucca

Born 11/22/1965, age

Shuler Hensley

as Pino

Born 03/06/1967, age

John Seitz

as Massimo

Born 11/16/1937

Died 07/04/2005, age