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?
| Release Date | April 21, 2001 | |
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| Status | Released | |
| Original Title | The Bread, My Sweet | |
| Runtime | 1h 45min | |
| Budget | $600,000 | |
| Revenue | $1,023,156 | |
| Language | English, Italian | |
| Original Language | English | |
| Production Countries | United States of America | |
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