The Cantone family pasta business in Italy is ready for some new blood. Dad is getting old and looking to his two grown-up sons Antonio (Alessandro Preziosi) and Tommaso (Riccardo Scamarcio) to take over so that he can retire. Tommaso wants no part of it as he wants to be a writer and return home to Rome to be with his boyfriend Marco (Carmine Recano), and confides this all to his brother by coming out and telling him that he is going to ‘fess up to the family at dinner that night so he can be disowned by his strict catholic father and be free to have his own life. Antonio is happy enough to stay and run the factory, but professes to Tommaso, that he too is gay. And without warning him, steals his brother’s thunder by coming out to the family at the dinner table before Tommaso can even speak.
The father throws Antonio out of the house and then immediately has a heart attack and is rushed to the hospital. Tommaso now feels trapped thinking that if he now told his father he was a homo too, that would totally finish him off. So he stays at home and reluctantly puts on a brave (straight) face and starts to run the pasta factory, even making people believe that he has fallen in love with a local girl. This all starts to unravel when a group of his outrageous friends from Rome come to visit, and eventually, the family catches on to the reality that their wily old Grandmother, who had been a rebel in her own day, had guessed many years ago.
And even though ‘Loose Cannons’ was a very big hit in Italy his adopted country, it never made it to a Theater in the U.S. (shame!), but look out for it on DVD or VOD… you’ll be pleased that you did.
Labels: 2010, comedy, coming out, family, gay, italian, romance
