Synopsis: A lovable, misfit mobster becomes trapped in his favorite Italian restaurant during the worst snowstorm in Chicago’s history. Reluctantly, he is forced to choose between the family he knows and the woman he loves in this dark, romantic mobster comedy.--------------------------------------------------------------
Another one I obsessively loved....
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119248/
Hamam (1997)
Also Known As:
Bagno turco, Il (Italy)
Hamam: The Turkish Bath (UK)
Steam: The Turkish Bath (USA)
Writer (Story and Screenplay)
and
Director:
Ferzan Ozpetek
Alessandro Gassman ... Francesco
Francesca d'Aloja ... Marta
Mehmet Günsür ... Mehmet
Find your place in life -- mesmerizing!, 3 July 2002
Author: Tim Evanson ([email protected]) from Washington, D.C.
An official selection of the Cannes Film Festival, "Steam (The Hamam)" is a mesmerizing, astounding film that grips you almost from the beginning. Francesco and Marta are a feuding, materialistic, adulterous married couple [living in Rome]. But when Francesco inherits a Turkish bath from an aunt he barely knew, he heads to Instanbul to sell it. There, he is seduced away from his high-tech, wealth-obsessed life by the slow, human pace of life led by the people of the ghetto. Francesco finds his bitterness salved by the love of the family who manages the hamam, his heart stolen by the family's hunky son Mehmet, and his too-fast life slowed by the need to rebuild and maintain the hamam. And then Marta arrives, wondering what the heck has gotten into her husband... The film even has a surprise ending. The musical soundtrack was a major hit on the dance circuit. And the film itself became notorious when the Turkish government refused to nominate it for a best foreign film Oscar because of its homosexual content. (The controversy led the Academy to change the way foreign films are nominated.) "Steam" is MUST-see, ranking right up there with "Muriel's Wedding" and "Four Weddings and a Funeral."
I too obsessed about this film (and its jaw-droppingly handsome star, Alessandro Gassman) which is why I played it many rounds ago.
I think we're still suppose to use un-played titles so in the future you may want to check the New Archive of Movies Played thread.
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