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Tea with Mussolini

(1999)

March 25, 1999 1h 57m
64%
TMDB Score

Overview

In 1930s fascist Italy, adolescent Luca just lost his mother. His father, a callous businessman, sends him to be taken care of by British expatriate Mary Wallace. Mary and her cultured friends - including artist Arabella, young widow Elsa, and archaeologist Georgie - keep a watchful eye over the boy. But the women's cultivated lives take a dramatic turn when Allied forces declare war on Mussolini.

Franco Zeffirelli

Director

Top Billed Cast

MS

Maggie Smith

Lady Hester Random

JD

Judi Dench

Arabella

JP

Joan Plowright

Mary Wallace

C

Cher

Elsa Strauss-Almerson

LT

Lily Tomlin

Georgina "Georgie" Rockwell

BW

Baird Wallace

Luca

CL

Charlie Lucas

Luca (Child)

MW

Michael Williams

British Consul

PC

Paul Chequer

Wilfred Random, aka Miss Lucy

MG

Massimo Ghini

Paolo