2016 Italian American Film Festival: Mac

This summer the Italian Cultural and Community Center presents the 2016 Italian American Film Festival. Enjoy four weeks of exciting, controversial and fun, loving Italian American films. All the films will be in English.

Week 1: Moonstruck (1987), Tuesday, July 12, 2016
Week 2: Mean Streets (1973), Tuesday, July 19, 2016
Week 3: Mac (1992), Tuesday, July 26, 2016
Week 4: Good Morning, Babylon (1987), Tuesday, August 2, 2016

Mac (Tuesday, July 26, 2016)
Directed by John Turturro, starring John Turturro, Micheal Badalucco, and Carl Capotorto, (1992 release, 117 minutes).

Actor John Turturro spent a dozen years getting his script for Mac before the cameras; he’d originally planned to merely act in the film, but the stringent budget required that he direct as well.

Turturro plays Mac, one of three grown brothers in an Italian/American family living in 1950s New York. His other siblings are would-be “macho man” Vico (Michael Badalucco) and idealistic Bruno (Carl Capatoro). All three are unhappily employed at a construction firm run–badly–by Olek Krupa.

Convinced he knows more about the business in his little finger than Krupa does in his whole carcass, Mac sets up his own construction company, wooing away most of Krupa’s employees. On the verge of great success, Mac finds that his brothers are unwilling to commit themselves to his new business, a fact that causes an irreparable schism in their relationship.

Co-starring in Mac as John Turturro’s wife is the real-life Mrs. Turturro, Katherine Borowitz.