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The Florentine (1999)

Directed by Nick Stagliano

Comedy | Drama

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 (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.

Length 104 minutes

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Michael Madsen | Chris Penn | Virginia Madsen | Jeremy Davies | Luke Perry | Tom Sizemore | Hal Holbrook | Jim Belushi | Burt Young | Mary Stuart Masterson | Lillo Brancato | James McCaffrey | Maeve Quinlan | Peter Maloney | Jill Hennessy | Jerome Le Page | Michael Massee | Gene Canfield | Bobby Cooper | Chris Barnes | Tony Devon | Kenny Marino | Ilene Norris | Doug DeWitt | Joseph Glenn | Conrad Tooker | Jessica Hopper | Guy Griffis | Sylvia Kauders | Herbert Rubens | Russell Gibson | Robert Downs | Charles J. Corrado Jr. | John Brumfield | Michael Griffith | Mark Ott | Lester Smith | Jay Spodaro

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