The Florentine

The Florentine (1999) is a drama, comedy film directed by Nick Stagliano rated 5.7/10.

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.

Cast

Michael Madsen

Whitey

Chris Penn

Bobbie

Virginia Madsen

Molly

Jeremy Davies

Truby

Luke Perry

Frankie

Tom Sizemore

Teddy Finn

Hal Holbrook

Smitty

Jim Belushi

Billy Belasco

Burt Young

Joe McCollough

Mary Stuart Masterson

Vikki

Lillo Brancato

Pretty

James McCaffrey

Jack Ryan