Love's Brother

{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2022}} {{Infobox film | name = Love's Brother | image = Loves Brother movie poster.jpg | caption = | director = Jan Sardi | producer = | narrator = | starring = Giovanni Ribisi<br />Adam Garcia<br />Joe Petruzzi<br />Amelia Warner | music = | cinematography = | editing = | distributor = | writer = Jan Sardi | released = {{Film date|2004}} | runtime = Palace Films | country = Australia | language = English | budget = }}

'''''Love's Brother''''' is a 2004 film written and directed by Jan Sardi.

==Plot== Angelo Donnini and his younger brother Gino are of Italian origin, living in Australia in the 1950s. Angelo is insecure, silent and introverted and not at all good-looking, while Gino is the complete opposite: outgoing, funny and handsome. Angelo looks for a wife and writes letters to Italian girls in hope of a match. But his letters are always returned with his photograph. One day, he desperately sends a new letter with a picture of his brother to Rosetta, who falls in love instantly with the man in the picture and therefore accepts his marriage proposal. When she arrives in Australia she is, of course, appalled that Angelo does not look like the man she thought she had married. However, she stays, to try to gain Gino's affections. But Gino has a girlfriend, Connie, a wise and tough girl who knows exactly what she wants. She loves Gino but wishes he possed more of Angelo's qualities. Though Gino tries to avoid Rosetta, he cannot help but eventually fall in love with her. Gino and Connie have an argument and they call it quits, and Angelo and Connie start to develop a romance. In the end, Rosetta, believing that she has failed to gain Gino's affections, decides to return to Italy with the help of Father Alfredo. Gino follows her onto the ship and they embrace. The couple then marry. In the final scene of the film, which seems to be a few years later, it shows the wedding party of Connie and Angelo, while Gino is married to Rosetta and they have a newborn baby.

==Cast== * Giovanni Ribisi as Angelo Donnini * Adam Garcia as Gino Donnini * Joe Petruzzi as Zio Luigi * Amelia Warner as Rosetta * Silvia De Santis as Connie * Barry Otto as Father Alfredo * Bruno Lucia as Paolo

==Locations==

''Love's Brother'' was filmed on location at Daylesford and Hepburn Springs, Glenlyon, Smeaton and Talbot, Victoria, Australia, and on location at Civita di Bagnoregio, Italy.

The storyline had some similarities with ''They Knew What They Wanted''.<ref>{{cite magazine|date=25 September 2025|access-date=25 September 2025|first=Stephen|last=Vagg|magazine=Filmink|url=https://www.filmink.com.au/the-time-claudia-cardinale-made-a-film-in-australia/?|title=The Time Claudia Cardinale Made a Film in Australia}}</ref>

==Budget==

The budget for the film was reported to be approximately $10million.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.ozmovies.com.au/movie/loves-brother |title=''Ozmovies – Love's Brother'' |access-date=30 June 2021}}</ref> This figure would have included the additional costs necessary for official co-productions.

==Box office== ''Love's Brother'' grossed $977,106 at the box office in Australia.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://film.vic.gov.au/resources/documents/AA4_Aust_Box_office_report.pdf |title=''Film Victoria – Australian Films at the Australian Box Office'' |access-date=21 November 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110218045303/http://film.vic.gov.au/resources/documents/AA4_Aust_Box_office_report.pdf |archive-date=18 February 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==See also== *Cinema of Australia

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==External links== *{{IMDb title|id=0301563|title=Love's Brother}} *{{Rotten Tomatoes|loves_brother}} *[https://archive.today/20121127022514/http://colsearch.nfsa.afc.gov.au/nfsa/search/display/display.w3p;adv=yes;group=;groupequals=;holdingType=;page=0;parentid=;query=Number:587572;querytype=;rec=0;resCount=10 Love's Brother at the National Film and Sound Archive] * [https://www.ozmovies.com.au/movie/loves-brother Love's Brother at Ozmovies]

Category:2004 films Category:2004 romantic drama films Category:Australian romantic drama films Category:Films directed by Jan Sardi Category:Films set in the 1950s Category:Films set in Australia Category:Films scored by Stephen Warbeck Category:2004 English-language films Category:2004 Australian films Category:English-language romantic drama films