The only way to find out what you love is to risk everything you have.
Buddy Visalo is a factory worker, a frustrated crooner who once had a shot at the big time. Buddy's dreams of greatness have been reduced to an endless series of failed money-making schemes. His latest is buying a two-family house for him and his wife Estelle and converting the ground floor into a neighborhood bar where he can perform. The wrench in the works is that he also inherits the upstairs tenants, Mary, a pregnant Irish girl fresh off the boat and her abusive, alcoholic husband, Jim. As Buddy's gang of Italians is forced to the limits of their toleration and compassion.
*Winner of the Audience Award at Sundance, 2000
