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Release Date: 1999

Cast: Hazel Parsons, Paolo Seganti, Paul Chequer, Judi Dench, Charlie Lucas, Claudio Spadaro, Massimo Ghini, Cher, Lily Tomlin, Mino Bellei, Paula Jacobs, Maggie Smith ...MORE

Cast: Hazel Parsons, Paolo Seganti, Paul Chequer, Judi Dench, Charlie Lucas, Claudio Spadaro, Massimo Ghini, Cher, Lily Tomlin, Mino Bellei, Paula Jacobs, Maggie Smith, Michael Williams, Bettine Milne, Tessa Pritchard, Baird Wallace, Joan Plowright ...LESS

Categories: Movies, Drama Film, Period Piece, Comedy, Indie, War Film, Comedy-Drama, Coming Of Age

Tea with Mussolini is a 1999 British-Italian semi-autobiographical film directed by Franco Zeffirelli, telling the story of young Italian boy Luca's upbringing by a circle of English and American women, before and during World War II. The film begins in Florence, Italy in 1935, where a group of cultured expatriate British women — called by the Italians the Scorpioni — meet for tea every afternoon. Young Luca (Charlie Lucas) is the illegitimate son of an Italian businessman (Massimo Ghini) who shows little interest in his son's upbringing; the boy's mother, a dressmaker, has recently... MORE

Tea with Mussolini is a 1999 British-Italian semi-autobiographical film directed by Franco Zeffirelli, telling the story of young Italian boy Luca's upbringing by a circle of English and American women, before and during World War II. The film begins in Florence, Italy in 1935, where a group of cultured expatriate British women — called by the Italians the Scorpioni — meet for tea every afternoon. Young Luca (Charlie Lucas) is the illegitimate son of an Italian businessman (Massimo Ghini) who shows little interest in his son's upbringing; the boy's mother, a dressmaker, has recently died. Mary Wallace (Joan Plowright), who works as the man's secretary, steps in to care for him, turning to her Scorpioni friends – including eccentric would-be artist Arabella (Judi Dench) – for support. Together, they teach Luca many lessons about life and especially the arts. Elsa Morganthal (Cher), a brash rich young American widow whom Scorpioni matron Lady Hester Random (Maggie Smith) barely tolerates, sets up a financial trust for Luca when she learns of the death of his mother, whom she was fond of and to whom Elsa still owed money for her dressmaking services. One day, when the ladies are in a LESS