The Bread, My Sweet (2001)
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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Good story, Not enough for a whole film
Don't listen to the negative reviews
If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.
Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable
I needed to buy another DVD to get a discount, and this one sounded interesting and was inexpensive It was not the light, fluffy comedy that I expected. It has substance, charm, some fine performances, some laughter, and some tears. Scott Baio, Kristin Minter, and Rosemary Prinz were excellent. I don't remember seeing Kristin Minter before, but now I want to see more of her.A Wedding for Bella, as its original name The Bread, My Sweet suggests, is a sweet movie; not hardcore. I like good hardcore, but I also like good sweet. For a low-budget, independent feature, it is well worth watching.
I really cannot fathom who these people are writing the glorious comments. The movie was banal at best, partially unbearable for the bad acting. ( The retarded brother made me scream, and if I had to look into Bella's eyes one more time, I would've rather gone blind ) The cuts were horrible, and the whole movie and script didn't make much sense anyway. What was the daughter doing in Mexico now? working as a prostitute maybe? Yeah, and I still have to find a high powered VP executive who is casually dropping in on meetings, and baking bread anyway, haha wish I had this guy's job with the paycheck and all the free time. The Italian couple was laughably pseudo-realistic, the daughter remained 2 dimensional, and the rest of the cast seemed more like cast-offs from a highschool drama lab. I watched it till the end just in the faint hope, it would get any better - NOT!
OK usually I am a horror,action,adventure, comedy, and drama kinda girl. Throw in a mafia movie shake and you have a perfect date especially if there is a lot of action ,voilence or murder, but this movie was one I rented on the sole reason of Scott Baio who I love when I was younger on Charles In Charge. I normally rent the lepercan series or something of the like and was never found in the romance section unless one of my boyfriends(there have been many over the years looking for a more romance night I guess you know why) dragged me over to get what they called a "chick Flick" . I could never understand what the appeal for those movies was . I was the anti-Chick when it came to movies but after seeing this movie with its simple Italian family and their kind neighbor downstairs in a bakery appealed to my family side especially since I am half Italian . It is the kind of movie that was a fairy tale in my Nonna's view before she died when I was three . Her idea of a fairy tale for me was to get married to a nice Italian boy and have a nice family .So this movie pulled at my heart strings. Rent it and keep an open mind. You never know you might love it.
This movie was not that good. The high user rating and the comments make you think that this movie would be extremely good and it didn't even rate in the average category. After reading through the comments I am guessing that many reviewers knew the people who made this movie and wanted to give it a favorable review. Although I enjoyed Scott Baio and Kristin Minter's characters, everything else in the movie made this a movie I wish I hadn't taken the time to watch. The parents definitely overacted just about every one of their lines and the retarded brother's performance bordered on the insulting many times. Scott Baio's character's work life was not realistic (when exactly was he working so hard at his other job that he warranted a promotion to Senior VP). The thing is, I enjoy movies with concepts similar to this one - unrealistic, but nevertheless romantic and predictable story lines- the problem is that this movie was just poorly executed. It was suggested that you have to enjoy or appreciate ethnic movies to enjoy this one, well I love movies involving ethnicity but showing Italian culture in the form of extremely bad accents, overacted but nonetheless authentic family interactions, and good food doesn't save this movie.Save your time and your money and pass on this movie, you'll only be disappointed.