Tea with Mussolini

The film begins in 1935 in Florence, Kingdom of Italy, where a group of cultured expatriate English People women – called the "the Scorpioni" by the Italians – meet for tea every afternoon. Young Luca (Charlie Lucas) is the illegitimate son of an Italian businessman (Massimo Ghini) who shows little interest in his son's upbringing; the boy's mother, a dressmaker, has recently died. Mary Wallace (Joan Plowright), who works as the man's secretary, steps in to care for him, turning for support to her Scorpioni friends, including eccentric would-be artist Arabella (Judi Dench). Together, they teach Luca many lessons about life and especially the arts. Elsa Morganthal (Cher), a brash rich young American widow whom Scorpioni matron Lady Hester Random (Maggie Smith) barely tolerates, sets up a financial trust for Luca when she learns of the death of his mother, whom she was fond of and to whom Elsa still owes money for her dressmaking services.

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  • TheTVDB.com Movie ID 16039
  • Status Released
  • Released Worldwide March 25, 1999
  • Runtime 117 minutes
  • Genres Comedy Drama
  • Original Country Italy
  • Original Language English
  • Spoken Languages English Italian Russian
  • Production Company Cattleya Cineritmo Film and General Productions Medusa Produzione
  • Production Countries Great Britain Italy
  • On Other Sites IMDB TheMovieDB.com
  • Box Office Worldwide $45,566,200
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