My Name Is Tanino
My Name Is Tanino | |
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Directed by | Paolo Virzì |
Written by | Francesco Bruni Francesco Piccolo Paolo Virzì |
Produced by | Vittorio Cecchi Gori Giovanni Lovatelli |
Starring | Corrado Fortuna Rachel McAdams |
Cinematography | Arnaldo Catinari |
Edited by | Jacopo Quadri |
Music by | Carlo Virzì |
Production companies | Cecchi Gori Group Whizbang Films Inc. |
Distributed by | Medusa Film |
Release date | 5 July 2002Venice Film Festival) | (
Running time | 124 minutes |
Countries | Italy Canada |
Languages | Italian, English |
Box office | €1,044,026 (Italy) |
My Name Is Tanino is a 2002 comedy film directed by Paolo Virzì. The picaresque plot is about Tanino, an Italian liberal arts student who falls in love with a young American tourist he meets in Sicily and decides to track her down in the United States.[1]
Plot
Gaetano Mendolìa, nicknamed Tanino, is a native of the fictional Castelluzzo del Golfo, a small seaside resort in the province of Trapani, Sicily. He studies cinematography in Rome and dreams of becoming a movie director.
He meets Sally, an American girl vacationing in Italy, with whom he has a brief romance. At the end of her vacation, Sally returns to the fictional Seaport, Rhode Island but forgets her camera in Italy. Tanino decides to travel to the US with the pretext of returning Sally's camera to her but also to avoid Italian military service. He leaves at night without telling anyone.
After arriving in America, Tanino has a series of adventures with the somewhat shady Li Causi family, Italian-Americans living in the US. Eventually he leaves them and finally meets up with Sally and her "perfect"
Later, Tanino escapes the clutches of the
Despite Tanino's many misadventures, he always comes out on top because of his ingenuity.
Cast
- Corrado Fortuna: Tanino Mendolia
- Rachel McAdams: Sally Garfield
- Frank Crudele: Angelo Maria Li Causi
- Licinia Lentini: Marinella, mother of Tanino
- Mary Long: Santa Li Causi
- Beau Starr: Omobono
- Jessica De Marco: Angelina
- Lori Hallier: Leslie Garfield
- Barry Flatman: Mr. Garfield
- Don Francks: Chinawsky
- Danielle Bouffard: Jane Garfield
- Meredith Ostrom: Melissa
- Genio Carbone: Rosario
- Marco Erler: Carmelo,
sodale di Rosario
See also
References
- ISBN 8860736269.
External links
- My Name Is Tanino at IMDb
- My Name Is Tanino at AllMovie