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General Minor 
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TITLE |
Bread, My Sweet, The (2001) |
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DISABILITY |
General
Cancer Learning Difficulties
Limb |
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NOTES |
This film is
catalogued under General since there are three fairly minor
disabilities involved.
About an Italian American family. Three brothers work in a
high-class bakers one of whom has a mild learning difficulty
(variously described by reviewers as "retarded" and "mentally
challenged"). Dominic one of the brothers is also senior
vice-president of a company and he set up the bakery for his
brothers. He works there because he likes it.
Their father uses a walker while their mother "has enormous
abdominal miss-alignment . . . Stubborn carcinoma." and other
complications too involved for surgery. "She's terminal . . . She
has six good months." Dominic takes the attitude that the doctor
knows nothing without having the slightest evidence to support his
view. His mother wants to keep the whole thing quiet. She is
portrayed as a cipher, a stereotypical Italian.
The film tries to create a certain ambience but much of this effort
becomes tedious filler. The boardroom scenes appear attached, the
company Dominic says makes some kind of "plastic crap" and he quits
the job to be a full-time baker. His move from unfeeling corporate
businessman to community serving baker is mirrored by his personal
life. He courts a young woman, Lucca, originally to please his
mother but she dies before the arranged marriage. Lucca returns the
ring to Dominic but he has really fallen in love and the marriage
goes ahead.
Reviewers are split on how well the film appeals and it has been
compared to "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" which I haven't seen.
Apparently it was loved in Pittsburgh its location. |
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