Movie #: Title:   Year: 1999         IMDB mediatype
Genre: Director:     IMDB   Rating:  PG  Box Set? box set?

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0765 Tea With Mussolini.mp41171382
Actors & their characters
CherFilterElsa Morganthal Strauss-Armistan
Joan PlowrightFilterMary Wallace
Maggie SmithFilterLady Hester Random
Lily TomlinFilterGeorgie Rockwell
Judi DenchFilterArabella
Baird WallaceFilter 
Charlie LucasFilter 
Massimo GhiniFilter 
Paolo SegantiFilter 
Claudio SpadaroFilterMussolini

Synopsis

1935. A group of elderly British women, who the Italians have named the Scorpioni, have chosen Italy, specifically Florence, as a place to live to blend their proper British sensibilities with their love of Italian art and culture. One of those Scorpioni, Mary Walsh, works as the English secretary for Paolo Innocente, who, in part because of his own wife's adamant refusal, largely neglects his illegitimate adolescent son, Luca, despite Paolo's want for Luca to grow up to be a proper young man, much like the English. Luca has lived in an orphanage since his dressmaker mother's death, death a concept that Luca does not yet understand. As such, he often runs away looking for his mother. On a mutual agreement between Paolo and Mary, Mary becomes Luca's guardian, she who will receive help in raising Luca by her fellow Scorpioni and financial help from Paolo as needed. Associated with the Scorpioni is a brash younger nouveau riche Jewish-American woman named Elsa Morgenthal, who, because of... Written by Huggo  

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Writers: John Mortimer; Franco Zeffirelli
Countries: Italy; UK
Languages: English; Italian
Release Date: 14 May 1999
Filming Locations: Cinecittà Studios, Cinecittà, Rome, Lazio, Italy