The Bread, My Sweet

"In Italian a good man is a piece of bread."

Apr 21 2001 PG-13 1h 45m
Drama, Romance

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?

Plot

A man proposes to a woman he's met once, all in the same day.

Written by

Melissa Martin

Directed by

Melissa Martin

Cast

Scott Baio, John Seitz, Kim Martin

Crew

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Production Countries

United States of America

Languages

Italiano, English

Awards

5 wins

Scores
# of Votes
981
Average Rating
6.5 out of 10
Metascore
54
Popularity
NA