The Bread, My Sweet 2001

In Italian a good man is a piece of bread.

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PG-13
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?

Release Date 2001-04-21
Runtime 1h 45m
Director Melissa Martin
Producers Melissa Martin, Adrienne Wehr, William C. Hulley
Writer Melissa Martin