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The Bread, My Sweet

In Italian a good man is a piece of bread.

2001★ 5.5 · 131h 45mDramaRomance

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

Scott Baio
as Dominic

Kristin Minter
as Lucca

Shuler Hensley
as Pino

Adrienne Wehr
as Tamela

John Amplas
as Jimmy

Rosemary Prinz
as Bella

John Seitz
as Massimo

Nancy Bach
as Second Doctor

Mary Harvey
as Sister Grace

Billy Mott
as Eddie

Jennifer Martin
as Maude

Rose Bray
as Rose

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Release date: 2001-04-21

Budget: $600,000

Revenue: $1,023,156

Runtime: 1h 45m

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DramaRomance

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