Dimenticare Palermo

Dimenticare Palermo
Directed by	Francesco Rosi
Produced by	Mario Cecchi Gori Vittorio Cecchi Gori
Written by	Edmonde Charles-Roux (novel) Francesco Rosi Gore Vidal Tonino Guerra
Starring	James Belushi Mimi Rogers Joss Ackland
Music by	Ennio Morricone
Cinematography	Pasqualino De Santis
Editing by	Ruggero Mastroianni
Country	Italy
Language	English

Dimenticare Palermo (To Forget Palermo) is a 1989 Italian political thriller starring James Belushi, Mimi Rogers and Joss Ackland and directed by Francesco Rosi and co-written by Gore Vidal.^[1] The film was released under the title The Palermo Connection in North America. The script is based on the Prix Goncourt winning novel Oublier Palerme (1966) by French author Edmonde Charles-Roux.

The actual rating is unknown; while the IMDb lists it as R, at least one home video release gives it as PG-13.

Plot

Carrmine Bonavia is elected mayor of New York City on the issue of drug legalization. After the election, he marries and travels to his ancestral home of Sicily for their honeymoon where he encounters men of power will stop at nothing to prevent the legalization of drugs, which threatens their business.

References

1. ^ BAM/PFA

External links

• Dimenticare Palermo at the Internet Movie Database
• Dimenticare Palermo at AllRovi