The Bread, My Sweet

In Italian a good man is a piece of bread.

The Bread, My Sweet — Plot

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?

• Release date
• April 21, 2001
• Runtime
• 105 min
• Genres
• Drama, Romance
• Director
• Melissa Martin

The Bread, My Sweet — Cast

Scott Baio Dominic Kristin Minter Lucca

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Rosemary Prinz Bella Shuler Hensley Pino John Seitz Massimo Billy Mott Eddie Adrienne Wehr Tamela

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Jennifer Martin Maude