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The Florentine (1999) [R]

Release Date:
April 19, 1999

Original Title:
The Florentine

Alternate Titles:
A bár
Chez Florentine
Florentine
Hoje e Sempre
Mikres istories
Partita col destino
Флорентин
Флорентинецът

Genres:
Comedy | Drama

Production Companies:
American Zoetrope
Initial Entertainment Group
March First
NAZZ Productions

Production Countries:
United States of America

Ratings / Certifications:
US: R 

Runtime: 104

Overview from TheMovieDB

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 (Michael Madsen), is deep in debt to the town's loan shark, Joe McCollough (Burt Young), and desperate for a path forward which won't cost him the bar. His sister, Molly (Virginia Madsen), is days away from her long-awaited nuptials, and then her former fiancé, Teddy (Tom Sizemore), shows up in town for the first time since leaving her at the altar years before. Ne'er-do-well Billy Belasco (Jim Belushi) runs a con on Frankie (Luke Perry) to steal the money for the wedding caterer, while long-time regular Bobby (Chris Penn) becomes a patron-cum-inhabitant as he hides from his fast-crumbling marriage to Vikki (Mary Stuart Masterson). 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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Production

Additional Grip:
Amanda McCormick

Additional Key Grip:
Brian 'Buzz' Buzzelli

Additional Production Assistant:
Farrah Falcone
Paul Wagtouicz
Bert French Jr.
Traven Rice

Additional Second Assistant Camera:
Samantha Schutz
Amanda Cole

Art Department Coordinator:
Jason De Bari

Art Department Production Assistant:
Scott Hengst

Assistant Accountant:
Elaine Cooke

Assistant Editor:
Jordan Flaherty

Assistant Electrician:
Steven O'Neill
Jason Summers

Assistant Grip:
David Lambert
Christopher Muchow

Assistant Location Manager:
Kimberly R. Faulkner

Assistant Makeup Artist:
Kym Coates

Assistant Property Master:
Steven T. Duke

Assistant Sound Editor:
Rachel Chancey

Best Boy Electric:
Casey Campbell

Best Boy Grip:
Raymond Edwards

Boom Operator:
Dan Wesson

Cableman:
Eric Strausser

Casting:
Marcia Shulman

Chef:
Paul Franklin

Color Timer:
Mark Ginsberg

Costume Design:
Kasia Walicka Maimone

Dailies Manager:
James Palumbo

Dailies Technician:
Joe Violante

Dialogue Editor:
Esther Regelson

Director:
Nick Stagliano

Director of Photography:
Stephen Kazmierski

Dolby Consultant:
Tim J. Carroll

Driver:
Charles J. Ferguson
Bill McReady
Dan Oldfield

Editor:
Plummy Tucker

Executive Producer:
Fred Fuchs

Extras Casting Assistant:
Ann Gillette-Dolcini

First Assistant Camera:
Christopher Green

First Assistant Director:
Jim LaClair

Foley Artist:
Richard Partlow
Beth Henderson

Foley Recordist:
Dave Paterson

Gaffer:
Alan Hostetter

Hair Assistant:
Alicia A. Kochis

In Memory Of:
Vincent R. Stagliano

Intern:
Christine Archibald
Marin B. Bulatewicz
Jason "Jake" Davis
Ricardo J. Flores
Scott Jones
Brad Katzev
Bryan Rader Long
Lori Magaro
Jessica Manning
Bryan McElroy
Eric Prykowski
Will Rowe
Shona Vitelli

Key Costumer:
Cara Borrelli

Key Grip:
Greg Edwards

Key Makeup Artist:
Martel Thompson Hale

Key Set Production Assistant:
Christopher Savage

Leadman:
Brian Scott Buteau

Lighting Production Assistant:
Christy Archibald

Lighting Supervisor:
Paul Lowery

Loader:
Amy Silverman

Locale Casting Director:
Kathy Wickline

Location Assistant:
Doug Van Buskirk

Location Manager:
Gayle Vangrofsky

Location Production Assistant:
Stephen Molinaro

Music Co-Supervisor:
Ken Watson

Music Coordinator:
Julian Bratolyubov

Negative Cutter:
Patricia Sztaba
Stan Sztaba

On Set Dresser:
Stéphane Ferrante

Orchestrator:
Marco Beltrami
Pete Anthony
Bill Boston

Original Music Composer:
Marco Beltrami

Original Story:
Amy McCarty Baker

Other:
Buck Sanders

Post Production Coordinator:
Leah Culton

Post Production Supervisor:
A. John Rath

Principal Costumer:
Caroline Keil

Producer:
Francis Ford Coppola
Nick Stagliano
Steven Weisman

Producer's Assistant:
Niamh Clancy

Production Accountant:
Michael Rath

Production Coordinator:
Lynn Appelle
John Robert Reed

Production Design:
Stephen McCabe

Production Secretary:
Leah Culton

Production Sound Mixer:
Thomas Varga

Production Supervisor:
Bernadette Lee

Property Master:
Christopher DesMarais

Public Relations:
Jodie Magid

Runner Art Department:
Christian Halac
Ted Fairchild

Script Supervisor:
Christine Gee

Second Assistant Camera:
Matthew W. Flannery

Second Assistant Director:
Chip Signore

Second Second Assistant Director:
Mikki Ziska

Second Unit Director of Photography:
Michael Barrett

Set Decoration:
Nick Evans

Set Dresser:
Marissa Nashel
Oliver Wolf Wehner
Jimmy C. Stapp

Set Production Assistant:
Greg Finkel
Bill Tlusty
Stacey Dolgos
Dianna Walden

Sound Effects Editor:
James P. Lay

Sound Engineer:
John Kurlander

Sound Re-Recording Mixer:
Reilly Steele

Sponsorship Coordinator:
Robert Colletta

Still Photographer:
John Clifford
Myles Aronowitz

Storyboard Designer:
Andromache Chalfant

Stunt Coordinator:
Jay Spodaro

Supervising Sound Editor:
Andy Kris

Swing:
Kenneth Conley

Techno Crane Operator:
Joe Kuzan

Thanks:
Louis Duit
Tim Chambers
Thomas F. Goldsmith
Barbara Kowitz
Ilene Feldman
Barbara Falcone
Judy Kruegar
Kenneth R. Wilder
Lawrence Palmer, Jr.
William L. Heydt
Beth Holden
Frederick Mill
Leslie Meyers
A.L. Brackbill, Jr.
Sharon Pinkinson
Nikos Nerantzinis
Carol Andrade
Jonathon Ruiz
Betty Kouack
Bob Brown
Paul Shaytin
Abbe Shaytin
Tom Bartholomew
Tom Pacchioli
Vince Agostino
Peter Fields

Transportation Captain:
Thomas Fitzgerald

Unit Production Manager:
A. John Rath

Wardrobe Assistant:
Lissy Murphy

Wardrobe Supervisor:
Natalya Khorover

Writer:
Tom Benson
Damien Gray

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