The Florentine
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 (Michael Madsen), is deep in debt to the town's loan shark, Joe McCollough (Burt Young), and desperate for a path forward which won't cost him the bar. His sister, Molly (Virginia Madsen), is days away from her long-awaited nuptials, and then her former fiancé, Teddy (Tom Sizemore), shows up in town for the first time since leaving her at the altar years before. Ne'er-do-well Billy Belasco (Jim Belushi) runs a con on Frankie (Luke Perry) to steal the money for the wedding caterer, while long-time regular Bobby (Chris Penn) becomes a patron-cum-inhabitant as he hides from his fast-crumbling marriage to Vikki (Mary Stuart Masterson). 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.
Year: 1999
Studio: Initial Entertainment Group, American Zoetrope, NAZZ Productions, March First
Director: Nick Stagliano
Cast: Michael Madsen, Chris Penn, Virginia Madsen, Jeremy Davies, Luke Perry, Tom Sizemore
Crew: Nick Stagliano (Director), Francis Ford Coppola (Producer), Michael Rath (Production Accountant), Amy Silverman (Loader), Amanda Cole (Additional Second Assistant Camera), Steven O'Neill (Assistant Electrician)
Runtime: 104 minutes
Release: Apr 19, 1999
IMDb: 5.20/10 by 10 users
Popularity: 6
Country: United States of America
Language: English
Budget: 2
Revenue: 0
Keyword : debt, loan shark, financial problem, steel town, bookmaker, reflective, bar, independent film
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