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?

  • Genre: Drama, Romance
  • Release Date: 2001-04-21
  • Runtime: 105 min
  • Country: United States of America
  • Language: English, Italian
  • Status: Released
  • IMDb Rating: 5.4
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