The Florentine (1999)
104 min
A slice-of-life story unfolds inside The Florentine, a bar in a Pennsylvania steel town whose brightest days are behind it, leaving behind many of life's disillusioned "losers." Its owner, Whitey, is deep in debt to the town's loan shark, Joe McCollough, and desperate for a path forward which won't cost him the bar. His sister, Molly, is days away from her long-awaited nuptials, and then her former fiancé, Teddy, shows up in town for the first time since leaving her at the altar years before. Ne'er-do-well Billy Belasco runs a con on Frankie to steal the money for the wedding caterer, while long-time regular Bobby becomes a patron-cum-inhabitant as he hides from his fast-crumbling marriage to Vikki. Every plot in this multi-layered story seems to be at its nadir just as a pair of unlikely heroes emerge out of the backdrop to turn everything around.
- Release date
- April 19, 1999
- Country of origin
- United States
- Budget
- $2,250,000
Cast
- Jeremy Davies as Truby
- Virginia Madsen as Molly
- Luke Perry as Frankie
- Mary Stuart Masterson as Vikki
- Michael Madsen as Whitey
- Chris Penn as Bobby
- Hal Holbrook as Smitty
- Tom Sizemore as Teddy
- Jim Belushi as Billy Belasco
- Maeve Quinlan as Claire
Crew
- Nick Stagliano · Director
- Tom Benson · Writer
- Damien Gray · Writer
- Francis Ford Coppola · Producer
- Nick Stagliano · Producer
- Steven Weisman · Producer
- Marco Beltrami · Composer
- Stephen Kazmierski · Cinematographer
- Plummy Tucker · Editor
- Marcia Shulman · Casting director
- Stephen McCabe · Production designer