The Sicilian Connection
- IMDb link: 0089813
- IMDb rating: 6.8 (467 votes) Search
- Genres: Thriller, Crime, Drama
- Director: Michele Placido, Damiano Damiani
- Cast: Mark Chase, Simona Cavallari, Massimo De Francovich and others
- Release date: 1 Sep 1985
- Release year: 1985
- Runtime: 116 minutes
- Country: Italy
- Keywords: mafia, heroine, sibling relationship, addict, peep show, gun range, pizza, italy, new york city, family relationships
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To all appearances just an affable pizza man, Mario is in reality one of the Mafia's most vicious killers. Despite his secret occupation, he is a loving and generous man to his family, especially his brother Michael. When Mario takes Michael into his confidence and tries to get him involved in the same line of work, his younger brother refuses. The connection between the two brothers is strained as each tries to bring the other around to his way of thinking.
Mario (Placido), an Italian American who manages a pizzeria in NYC, is charged with an assassination of a judge in Palermo. He leaves the States, comes back to Sicily and recruit Michele, his younger brother, for some help. Michele is a good guy not involved with the Mafia, who is trying to build his life on honesty and hard-working. Michele needs some money to give freedom to a prostitute he is in love, and Mario promise his help in change of an hands to set up his trap for the judge. Anyway Michele isn't made with the same "pasta" of Mario, he couldn't never be a real Mafioso and this causes many between the two brother and the Mafia. There is only a way for Mario to save his brother. A way that Mafia could like.
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