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PUCCINI FOR BEGINNERS

By Maria MAGGENTI

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Comedy - Completed 2005

- Year of production
- 2005
- Genres
- Comedy
- Countries
- USA
- Languages
- ENGLISH
- Duration
- 90 mn
- Director(s)
- Maria MAGGENTI
- Writer(s)
- Maria MAGGENTI
- Cast
- Elizabeth REASER, Justin KIRK, Gretchen MOL
- ISAN
- 0000-0003-6F48-0000-1-0000-0000-Y
- Producer(s)
- Eden WURMFELD (InDigEnt), Gary WINICK (InDigEnt), Jake ABRAHAM (InDigEnt)
- Synopsis
- Everyone is love-crazed in Maria Maggenti's delightfully quick-witted screwball comedy, Puccini for Beginners; but Allegra Castiglione–our dashing, adorable heroine–is by far the most commitment phobic. Her lesbian lover dumped her because she couldn't settle down and say "I love you." And just as she's drowning her sorrows in a giant slice of Camembert, in walks Philip, a dapper Columbia professor who, against her better judgment, lights her fire. Kicking and screaming, she launches an affair with–heaven forbid–a man! Meanwhile, she falls into bed with irresistibly gorgeous Grace, a recently single, straight woman, of all things. While juggling two romances that are advancing way too quickly for comfort, Allegra lands in hot water that boils over into an explosive, cathartic climax for all.