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The Florentine (1999)

The Florentine (1999)

Drama Comedy
Release Date: 1999, April 19
Directors: Nick Stagliano
Countries: United States of America
Production: Initial Entertainment Group, American Zoetrope, American Zoetrope, NAZZ Productions, NAZZ Productions, March First, March First
Cast: Gene Canfield, Michael Massee, Michael Madsen, Tom Sizemore, Jeremy Davies, Virginia Madsen, Luke Perry, Burt Young, Chris Penn, Tony Devon, Peter Maloney, Hal Holbrook

Overview:

A slice-of-life story unfolds inside The Florentine, a bar in a Pennsylvania steel town whose brightest days are behind it, leaving behind many of life's disillusioned "losers." Its owner, Whitey, is deep in debt to the town's loan shark, Joe McCollough, and desperate for a path forward which won't cost him the bar. His sister, Molly, is days away from her long-awaited nuptials, and then her former fiancé, Teddy, shows up in town for the first time since leaving her at the altar years before. Ne'er-do-well Billy Belasco runs a con on Frankie to steal the money for the wedding caterer, while long-time regular Bobby becomes a patron-cum-inhabitant as he hides from his fast-crumbling marriage to Vikki. Every plot in this multi-layered story seems to be at its nadir just as a pair of unlikely heroes emerge out of the backdrop to turn everything around.

Keywords:

independent film reflective bar loan shark debt financial problem bookmaker steel town