Mambo Italiano

Mambo Italiano
Film poster for Mambo Italiano
Directed by	Émile Gaudreault
Written by	Steve Galluccio Émile Gaudreault
Starring	Luke Kirby Claudia Ferri Peter Miller Paul Sorvino Ginette Reno
Release date(s)	2003
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Mambo Italiano is a 2003 comedy-drama/indie film, set in Montréal, Québec, and directed by Émile Gaudreault. The screenplay was written by Gaudreault and Steve Galluccio, based on Galluccio's theatrical play by the same name. The play/film is based on Galluccio's own life and experiences.

Plot

Angelo Barberini (Luke Kirby) is the oddball son of Italian immigrants Gino (Paul Sorvino) and Maria (Ginette Reno), who inadvertently ended up in Canada rather than the States. Angelo shocks his parents - and his sister, Anna (Claudia Ferri) - by moving out on his own without getting married, and, shortly after that, shocks them further still when he reveals that he's gay. But his boyfriend (and childhood best friend), policeman Nino Paventi (Peter Miller), isn't as ready to come out of the closet - especially not to his busybody Sicilian mother, Lina (Mary Walsh).

Galluccio, in turn, went on to create the television sitcom Ciao Bella, which explored similar themes of culture clash that are examined in this film and the play it was based upon. Claudia Ferri, who played Angelo's sister Anna in Mambo Italiano, plays the lead role in Ciao Bella.

DVD cover for the film

Cast

• Luke Kirby as Angelo Barberini
• Claudia Ferri as Anna Barberini
• Peter Miller as Nino Paventi
• Paul Sorvino as Gino Barberini
• Ginette Reno as Maria Barberini
• Mary Walsh as Lina Paventi
• Sophie Lorain as Pina Lunetti
• Tim Post as Peter
• Tara Nicodemo as Yolanda/Woman in Airplane/Jolene
• Pierrette Robitaille as Rosetta
• Dino Tavarone as Giorgio
• Mark Camacho as Johnny Christofaro
• Michel Perron as Father Carmignani
• Lou Vani as Marco
• Diane Lavallée as Mélanie

External links

• Mambo Italiano at the Internet Movie Database

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