The Bread, My Sweet
Midnight weekend screenings happen on Friday & Saturday nights (meaning arrive on Friday and/or Saturday night by 11:45pm for seating, the movie starts after midnight)!
Director: Melissa Martin Run Time: 105 min. Release Year: 2001
Starring: Adrienne Wehr, John Seitz, Kristin Minter, Scott Baio, Shuler Hensley
Come celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the Pittsburgh film The Bread My Sweet — a love story about the Strip District’s own Enrico’s Biscotti Company. We’ll have complimentary biscotti as well as a short intro from the filmmakers Adrienne Wehr and Melissa Martin.
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?