Joe De Felice, Web Master of AMICI reports: "Here, "The Bread, My Sweet"/ "A Wedding for Bella", produced by Who Knew Productions, is finally a movie that portrays a very decent Italian American image and is extremely entertaining.

My question. I never heard about this film, released in 2000. Another example of the
MISEARABLE NATIONAL Italian American Communication Network. When will the "Leaders" finally realize the NEED/NECESSITY of an Italian American PORTAL!!
Without it, how can we make significant progress??!!

If you believe in UNITY (Consolidation and Aggregation of Efforts),  and COORDINATION, rather than Individuality in accomplishing Goals, WHY NOT???

A different question, wouldn't it been wise for the NON ITALIAN Writer and Director Pittsburgh playwright Melissa Martin, Producer Adrienne Wehr, and Exec. Producer, William C. Hulley to have cast MORE than only Italian American Scott Baio among the  top six characters??? (and only 3 out of 29 total). What, Italian American actors don't know how to portray regular Italian Americans, only "mobsters" ???

What kind of guy would, in the same day, abandon a ridiculously successful career and propose to a woman he’s only met once—and what role does food play in his decision making process?

What kind of woman agrees to marry the guy who gave up the job, even though she knows it’s all a sham?

Who is the sweet, little, Italian woman behind it all? Why can’t she eat Pino’s pies anymore…

And most important of all, what is she making for dinner?

In Italian, a good man is “a piece of bread”— plain, simple, and always welcome. Dom Pyzola is a second generation Italian-American corporate raider who has a post graduate degree, a hot car, and an inkling that he’s not a nice guy. And he’s living parallel lives!

In the corporate world he is the designated "bad guy"; in the Biscotti Company which he owns, he is a piece of bread: he takes care of his older mentally handicapped brother, and keeps a day job waiting for his brother, Eddie, an actor. He is a surrogate son to Bella, an Italian immigrant who lives above the bakery and who has been saving, dollar by dollar, for her daughter’s American wedding since the day she gave birth.

Set in the Italian section of Pittsburgh’s Strip District, The Bread, My Sweet is a love story about what happens when Dominic’s worlds collide.When he, alone, discovers that Bella has six months to live, he quits his corporate job, finds Lucca (Bella’s daughter), and tries to convince her to marry him and to stay married only for as long as her mother lives.

The Bread, My Sweetis about love of family and culture — it’s about sacrifice. It’s a journey to a place where work is hard, wine is made in the basement, the future is stored dollar by dollar in coffee cans, and where people may believe that doing the outrageous thing is better than doing nothing at all.

CAST :
Scott Baio-- Dominic, Kristin Minter-- Lucca, Rosemary Prinz-- Bella, Shuler Hensley--Pino, John Seitz-- Massimo, Billy Mott-- Eddie

MOVIE AWARDS :
Stony Brook Film Festival 2002
Audience Choice Award (Best Feature)
Santa Monica International Film Festival
MOXIE Awards 2001 (Best Dramatic Feature)
Worldfest-Houston 2001
Grand Jury Prize, Best of Show
& Compaq Independent Vision Award
The Bread My Sweet
http://www.whoknewproductions.com/