The Bread, My Sweet (2001)

In Italian a good man is a piece of bread.

105 min★ 6.5 · 1007 votos

• 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?

Fecha de estreno

21 de abril de 2001

País de origen

Estados Unidos

Música

Susan Hartford

Presupuesto

600.000 US$

Taquilla

1.023.156 US$