Almost America

{{short description|2001 Canadian-Italian film}} {{Infobox television | native_name = {{Infobox name module|it|Come l'America}} | image = | caption = | director = Antonio Frazzi Andrea Frazzi | producer = Stefano Dammicco Bruce Harvey | writer = [[Sandro Petraglia]] Stefano Rulli | starring = [[Sabrina Ferilli]] [[Massimo Ghini]] [[Henry Czerny]] [[Tony Nardi]] | music = [[Luis Bacalov]] | cinematography = André Pienaar | editor = Bridget Durnford | company = [[Eagle Pictures]] Illusions Entertainment | network = | released = {{Start date|2001}} | runtime = 120 minutes | country = Canada Italy | language = English Italian | budget = }} '''''Almost America''''' ({{langx|it|Come l'America}}) is a [[Canada|Canadian]]-[[Italy|Italian]] drama film, directed by Antonio and Andrea Frazzi and released in 2001.<ref>[https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-2001-10-27-0110260472-story.html "Next best thing"]. ''[[South Florida Sun-Sentinel]]'', October 27, 2001.</ref>

The film centres on the Di Vitos, an Italian family who emigrate to Canada. [[Sabrina Ferilli]] stars as Antonia, who brings her children and her sister Paola (Gioia Spaziani) to Canada to join her husband Vincenzo ([[Tony Nardi]]), who came two years earlier to find work and build a home for his family; however, after discovering that Vincenzo began a relationship with another woman and fathered a child with her during his absence, she takes her children to [[Edmonton]], [[Alberta]] to raise them as a single mother.<ref>"Czerny plays good guy for a change: Almost America focuses on immigrant issues". ''[[Calgary Herald]]'', September 13, 2000.</ref> In Edmonton she befriends Mario ([[Massimo Ghini]]), a truck driver who becomes a new love interest for her and a father figure to her children, and trains as a nurse, eventually taking a job in the medical office of doctor Steven ([[Henry Czerny]]).<ref>"Well-acted film should be fascinating to Edmontonians". ''[[Edmonton Journal]]'', March 10, 2002.</ref>

The film was released in Canada as a theatrical film, but in Italy as a television miniseries.<ref>"Producer's almost famous". ''[[Calgary Herald]]'', September 26, 2001.</ref>

At the [[23rd Genie Awards]] in 2003, [[François Séguin]] won the [[Genie Award]] for [[Canadian Screen Award for Best Art Direction/Production Design|Best Art Direction or Production Design]],<ref>"Ararat wins best-picture Genie, five in all". ''[[National Post]]'', February 14, 2003.</ref> and [[Wendy Partridge]] was nominated for [[Canadian Screen Award for Best Costume Design|Best Costume Design]].<ref>"Ararat leads but Egoyan left out". ''[[The Globe and Mail]]'', December 11, 2002.</ref>

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==External links== * {{IMDb title|0268135}}

[[Category:2001 films]] [[Category:2001 drama films]] [[Category:Canadian drama films]] [[Category:Italian-language Canadian films]] [[Category:Films shot in Edmonton]] [[Category:Films set in Edmonton]] [[Category:Films directed by the Frazzi brothers]] [[Category:Films scored by Luis Bacalov]] [[Category:2001 Canadian films]]