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The Florentine (1999)

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, is deep in debt to the town's loan shark, Joe McCollough, and desperate for a path forward which won't cost him the bar. His sister, Molly, is days away from her long-awaited nuptials, and then her former fiancé, Teddy, shows up in town for the first time since leaving her at the altar years before. Ne'er-do-well Billy Belasco runs a con on Frankie to steal the money for the wedding caterer, while long-time regular Bobby becomes a patron-cum-inhabitant as he hides from his fast-crumbling marriage to Vikki. 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.

Release: 1999-04-19
Runtime: 104 min
Rating: 5.5 / 10
Cast
Michael Madsen
Michael Madsen
Whitey
Chris Penn
Chris Penn
Bobbie
Virginia Madsen
Virginia Madsen
Molly
Jeremy Davies
Jeremy Davies
Truby
Luke Perry
Luke Perry
Frankie
Tom Sizemore
Tom Sizemore
Teddy Finn
Hal Holbrook
Hal Holbrook
Smitty
Jim Belushi
Jim Belushi
Billy Belasco
Burt Young
Burt Young
Joe McCollough
Mary Stuart Masterson
Mary Stuart Masterson
Vikki
Lillo Brancato
Lillo Brancato
Pretty
James McCaffrey
James McCaffrey
Jack Ryan
Maeve Quinlan
Maeve Quinlan
Claire
Peter Maloney
Peter Maloney
Fr. Coyle
Jill Hennessy
Jill Hennessy
Brenda
Jerome Le Page
Jerome Le Page
Paris
Michael Massee
Michael Massee
Nickie Nepolitano
Gene Canfield
Gene Canfield
Dombrowski