The Florentine (film)

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The Florentine (film) - Wikipedia

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The Florentine
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Nick Stagliano
Written by	Tom Benson Damien Gray
Produced by	Francis Ford Coppola Nick Stagliano Steven Weisman
Starring	Jeremy Davies Michael Madsen Chris Penn Luke Perry Tom Sizemore Virginia Madsen Mary Stuart Masterson Hal Holbrook Burt Young James Belushi
Cinematography	Stephen Kazmierski
Edited by	Plummy Tucker
Music by	Marco Beltrami
Production companies	American Zoetrope Nazz Productions
Distributed by	New Films International
Release date	April 19, 1999 (1999-04-19) (Los Angeles Independent Film Festival)
Running time	104 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

The Florentine is a 1999 film directed by Nick Stagliano and produced by Francis Ford Coppola's American Zoetrope.^[1] It stars Jeremy Davies, Michael Madsen, and Chris Penn.

The film was shot in the Lehigh Valley in Pennsylvania in the cities of Allentown, Bethlehem, Easton, and in the Lehigh Valley borough of Hellertown.

Plot

As the owner of the Florentine—a working-class bar in an economically depressed town—Whitey (Michael Madsen) dispenses drinks to a number of troubled locals. Among the regulars there are compulsive gambler Bobby (Chris Penn) and Whitey's sister, Molly (Virginia Madsen), who is preparing to get married when her old flame, Teddy (Tom Sizemore), returns to the area. Whitey and Bobby must contend with a no-nonsense mobster who is squeezing them both for money.

Cast

Jeremy Davies as Truby
Michael Madsen as "Whitey"
Chris Penn as Bobby
Luke Perry as Frankie
Tom Sizemore as Teddy Finn
Virginia Madsen as Molly
Mary Stuart Masterson as Vikki
Hal Holbrook as "Smitty"
Burt Young as Joe McCollough
James Belushi as Billy Belasco
Lillo Brancato as "Pretty"
Jill Hennessy as Brenda
Maeve Quinlan as Claire

Reception

With a conspicuous heart on its sleeve, "The Florentine" can't break away from its verbose theatrical origins. Helmed by multifaceted industry vet Nick Stagliano, this paean to small-town American values is painfully earnest and determinedly old-fashioned in style and themes. While it's raised above the norm by a cast full of thesp heavyweights, pic is ultimately undone by a distracting spread of novelistic story strands and a deadly, repetitive series of two-character dialogue scenes. A distrib may end up going for this quaint, besotted bit of Americana, but the gabfest will be restricted to English-only markets, with betterafterlife on vid.
— Variety

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References

^ LoBrutto, Vincent; Morrison, Harriet R. (2012). The Coppolas: A Family Business. ABC-CLIO. p. 98. ISBN 978-0-313-39161-3.
^ Koehler, Robert (May 3, 1999). "The Florentine". Variety.

External links

The Florentine at IMDb

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