The Bread, My Sweet

2001 Rated PG-13 · ⭐ 5.2 · Votes: 11

“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?