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Tea with Mussolini / Medusa Film-Cattleya - Cineritmo (Rome) ; Film and General Productions (London) ; a Franco Zeffirelli film ; screenplay by John Mortimer and Franco Zeffirelli ; produced by Riccardo Tozzi, Giovannella Zannoni, Clive Parsons ; directed by Franco Zeffirelli.

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: M126395 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc.Language: English, French Original language: English Subtitle language: English, French Publisher: [Los Angeles, California] : Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, Inc., [2012]Distributor: Beverly Hills, CA : Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, [2012]Copyright date: ©2012Description: 1 videodisc (117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 inContent type:
  • two-dimensional moving image
Media type:
  • video
Carrier type:
  • videodisc
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Production credits:
  • Director of photography, David Watkin ; editor, Tariq Anwar ; music, Alessio Vlad, Stefano Arnaldi.
Cast: Cher, Judi Dench, Joan Plowright, Maggie Smith, Lily Tomlin, Charlie Lucas, Baird Wallace, Massimo Ghini, Paolo Seganti, Michael Williams.Summary: Pre-war Florence is the place to be for any proper British woman who relishes culture and the arts. These ladies have everything they could ever want or need, including a promise from Dictator Mussolini himself that not even the imminent World War will impose upon their lifestyle. But when it appears that his word is not kept and the expatriates, who choose to stay in Italy instead of seeking refuge in their own country are in trouble, it takes a young outcast boy and a brazen American woman (Cher) to keep them in the high life and out of harms way.
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Adult DVD Adult DVD Main Library DVD COMEDY Tea with Checked out 04/26/2024 33111009079985
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Pre-war Florence is the place to be for any proper British woman who relishes culture and the arts. These ladies have everything they could ever want or need - including a promise from Dictator Mussolini himself that not even the imminent World War will impose upon their lifestyle. But when it appears that his word is not kept, it takes a young outcast boy and a brazen American woman to keep them in the high life and out of harm's way.

DVD; NTSC; region 1; English Dolby Digital 5.1; French Dolby surround.

Wide screen (1.85:1); Full screen (1.33:1).

English or French with optional English or French subtitles; closed-captioned.

Cher, Judi Dench, Joan Plowright, Maggie Smith, Lily Tomlin, Charlie Lucas, Baird Wallace, Massimo Ghini, Paolo Seganti, Michael Williams.

Director of photography, David Watkin ; editor, Tariq Anwar ; music, Alessio Vlad, Stefano Arnaldi.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1998.

Screenplay based on "Zeffirelli : The Autobiography of Franco Zeffirelli," originally published in 1986.

Rated PG; thematic elements, language, brief nudity and mild violence.

Pre-war Florence is the place to be for any proper British woman who relishes culture and the arts. These ladies have everything they could ever want or need, including a promise from Dictator Mussolini himself that not even the imminent World War will impose upon their lifestyle. But when it appears that his word is not kept and the expatriates, who choose to stay in Italy instead of seeking refuge in their own country are in trouble, it takes a young outcast boy and a brazen American woman (Cher) to keep them in the high life and out of harms way.

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