Household Saints (1993)

Directors

Nancy Savoca

Cast

Tracey Ullman, Vincent D'Onofrio, Lili Taylor, Judith Malina

The story

The film follows three generations of a New York Italian American family, beginning in the 1950s with the courtship and marriage of Catherine Falconetti to local butcher Joseph Santangelo, who wins her hand after beating her father in a game of pinocle. The first half focuses on Catherine adjusting to her new life as a mother and housewife, as well as her strained relationship with her overbearing Old World mother-in-law, Carmela. The second half focuses on Catherine and Joseph's daughter Teresa, a devout Catholic more similar to her superstitious grandmother than her modernized and secularized parents.

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