The Bread, My Sweet

“In Italian a good man is a piece of bread.”

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?

Music

Susan Hartford

Director

Melissa Martin

Screenplay

Melissa Martin

Status

Released

Release date

21/04/2001

Original language

English

Budget

US$ 1 M

Box office

US$ 1 M