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.
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A seedy slice of life story of a bartender in a Pennsylvania steel town that finds his life full of characters struggling to find their own place in the world and ...
The Florentine
Story of a bunch of Pennsylvania steel town guys who hang out together at a bar called the Florentine. Bobbie is unhappily married to Vikki. Whitey's sister is ...
The Florentine
Story of a bunch of Pennsylvania steel town guys who hang out together at a bar called the Florentine. Bobbie is unhappily married to Vikki. Whitey's sister is ...
The Florentine (sottotitolato)
La squallida storia di un barista della Pennsylvania la cui vita è piena di personaggi che lottano per trovare una propria identità e la felicità.
The Florentine (OmU)
Eine zwielichtige Alltagsgeschichte über einen Barkeper in einer Stahlstadt in Pennsylvania der in seinem Leben jede Menge Menschen trifft die ihren Platz in ...
The Florentine (VOS)
Una sórdida historia de un camarero de una ciudad siderúrgica de Pensilvania que encuentra su vida llena de personajes que luchan por encontrar su lugar en ...
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