Tea with Mussolini

Year: 1999

Actors: Maggie Smith, Judi Dench, Joan Plowright, Cher

Duration: 117 min

Semi-autobiographical tale from the early life of Writer and Director Franco Zeffirelli. An illegitimate child is raised by an Englishwoman in pre-World War II Fascist Italy, part of an English community in Florence presided over by a diplomat's widow. Elsa Morganthal Strauss-Armistan (Cher) is a wealthy American collector of modern art who visits these "Scorpioni" on occasion.—Dehlia

Genre: Action   Comedy   Drama   War