Mambo Italiano

Mambo Italiano is a 2003 Canadian comedy-drama film directed by Émile Gaudreault. The screenplay was written by Gaudreault and Steve Galluccio, based on Galluccio's theatrical play by the same name. Both the play and the film are based on Galluccio's own life and experiences. Plot Angelo Barberini is the oddball son of Italian immigrants Gino and Maria, who inadvertently ended up in Canada rather than the United States. Angelo shocks his parents – and his sister, Anna – by moving out on his own without getting married, and, shortly after that, shocks them further still when he reveals he is gay. But his boyfriend (and childhood best friend), policeman Nino Paventi, isn't as ready to come out of the closet – especially not to his busybody Sicilian mother, Lina. Cast Luke Kirby as Angelo Barberini Claudia Ferri as Anna Barberini Peter Miller as Nino Paventi Paul Sorvino as Gino Barberini Ginette Reno as Maria Barberini Mary Walsh as Lina Paventi Sophie Lorain as Pina Lunetti Tim Post as Peter Tara Nicodemo as Yolanda/Woman in Airplane/Jolene Pierrette Robitaille as Rosetta Dino Tavarone as Giorgio Mark Camacho as Johnny Christofaro Michel Perron as Father Carmignani Lou Vani as Marco Diane Lavallée as Mélanie Production Mambo Italiano was based on a play by Steve Galluccio, which was written based on his own real-life experiences growing up in an immigrant community in Montreal.