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The Bread, My Sweet(Movie, 2001)

PG-13
| 1h 45min | Genres: Drama, Romance / Love
The Bread, My SweetRating: 2.6/5 (with 66 votes)
A Wedding for Bella (formerly titled The Bread, My Sweet) is a 2001 American romantic drama film that told the story of a successful businessman who trades in his single lifestyle to marry the estranged daughter of a terminally ill elderly woman whom he loves like a mother. The marriage is a sham in order to give the elderly woman happiness before her death. Written and directed by Melissa Martin, the film is set in Pittsburgh's Strip District, a thriving and diverse open-air market. Part love-story to the city that serves as its setting, the film is also a loving homage to the personalities of three people who each had an impact on director Melissa Martin. Bella, the title character, and her husband, Massimo, are the creative embodiments of an elderly Italian-American couple who owned, and lived above The Enrico Biscotti Company (the real-life Pittsburgh bakery served as an inspiration for the film). The film was directed by Martin, and starred Scott Baio as the businessman, Rosemary Prinz (as the dying elderly woman), Kristin Minter as Lucca, the es... ()
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About The Bread, My Sweet

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?

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Additional Information

Production country: United States of America (USA)
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: English (EN), Italian (IT)
Translated into 6 languages: German (DE), English (EN), Hungarian (HU), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU), Swedish (SV)
Status: Released
Release date US: 04/21/2001
Cast: Scott Baio, Kristin Minter, Rosemary Prinz, John Amplas
Director: Melissa Martin
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"A Wedding for Bella"
Keywords: woman director
Budget: 600,000 USD
Revenue: 1,023,156 USD (= 171%)

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