Loose Cannons

Title: Loose Cannons

Original title: Mine Vaganti

Genre: Comedy, drama

Directed by Ferzan Ozpetek

Script: Ivan Cotroneo, Ferzan Ozpetek

Stars: Riccardo Scamarcio, Nicole Grimauso, Alessandro Preziosi, Ennio Fantaschini.

STORYLINE

Tommaso is the youngest member of the large and eccentric family Cantone. They own a pasta factory in Plugia. His mother Stefania is a lovely woman but she is stifled by bourgeois conventions. His father Vincenzo has some exorbitant expectations about his sons. His aunt Luciana is an eccentric woman. His sister Elena is a frustrated housewife. His brother Antonio works with Tommaso’s father in the pasta company. Finally, his grandmother is trapped in the memory of an impossible love.

                Tommaso is an aspiring writer. He returns to Rome for an important family dinner in which his father would deliver the direction of the factory to him and his brother. Tommaso plans to announce at dinner that he is gay. But this night, when he wants ask for silence, his brother advances him and reveals his own secret. Incenzo kicked him out of home, family and factory.