- Passionada
Infobox Film
name = Passionada
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caption = Theatrical release poster
director =Dan Ireland
producer = David Bakalar
writer =David Bakalar Jim Jermanok Steve Jermanok
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starring =Jason Isaacs Sofia Milos Emmy Rossum Theresa Russell Seymour Cassel
music =Harry Gregson-Williams
cinematography = Claudio Rocha
editing = Luis Colina
distributor =Samuel Goldwyn Films
released = 2002
runtime = 108 min
country =United States
language = English
Portuguese
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imdb_id = 0285879"Passionada" is a
2002 romantic comedy film . It is directed byDan Ireland and starsJason Isaacs ,Sofia Milos andEmmy Rossum , co-starringSeymour Cassel andTheresa Russell . The story is byDavid Bakalar , and thescreenplay is byJim Jermanok andSteve Jermanok . The film is set inNew Bedford, Massachusetts , a formerly wealthy port town with a sizable population of Portuguese descent.Plot summary
Celia Amonte (
Sofia Milos ) is aPortuguese American widow who lives inNew Bedford, Massachusetts with her daughter Vicky (Emmy Rossum ). The broke British card counter Charles "Charlie" Beck (Jason Isaacs ) arrives in town to stay with and mooch off some wealthy friends and gamble at the localcasino . The friends are Daniel Vargas (Seymour Cassel ) and his wife Lois Vargas (Theresa Russell ). One night, dining at a Portuguese restaurant with Lois, Charlie sees Celia singingfado , a haunting Portuguese form of song. He is enchanted with her, approaches her, and is rebuffed. Charlie later finds Celia's address in the phone book and goes to her house, where he encounters Vicky, whom he had met at the casino before. Vicky agrees to help Charlie woo her mother in exchange for lessons on card counting. This proves difficult, as Celia still longs for her deceased husband and has not dated since his death.External links
*imdb title|id=0285879|title=Passionada
* [http://www.apple.com/trailers/samuel_goldwyn/passionada.html Quicktime trailer from Apple Computer website]
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