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Three generations of Italian American women struggle to live in post-World War II Little Italy in New York. The movie won several awards. The New York Times wrote:

"After Nancy Savoca made "True Love," her wonderfully funny and candid-looking film about a Bronx wedding, she surely could have taken the traditional route to Hollywood. "True Love" was so promising that it could have allowed Ms. Savoca to make films much bigger and blander, but instead she has retained her idiosyncratic tastes. Her third film, after the 1990 "Dogfight," is "Household Saints," a warm, rueful, thoroughly peculiar tale set in Little Italy. The story is filled with strange, homespun miracles, and this single-minded little film could be counted as one of them.

Adapted with exceptional skill from the novel by Francine Prose (Ms. Savoca wrote the screenplay with her husband, Richard Guay), "Household Saints" spans three generations in two small Italian families. Those families are brought together with the help of a card game and a butcher shop. "Man deals, and God stacks the deck," says one character, who happens to be a ghost. He aptly describes the film's view of spiritual matters. "
 

Additional Facts:

- Lili Taylor won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Female (1994)


- Vincent D’Onofrio nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead (1994)


- Nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Screenplay (1994)