Queens of the Big Time (1996)

Overview

Director Adriana Trigiani, an Italian-American best-selling author, directed this award-winning documentary of her father’s hometown of Roseto, Pennsylvania, an Italian-American community recreating their old village, featuring a central love story. The film, starring Sarah Saveri and Marino Saveri, explores themes of love, tradition, and identity through the story of a woman whose life is disrupted by the return of a former love.