http://movies.tvguide.com/tea-mussolini/133892?rss=object The latest on Tea With Mussolini TV Guide RSS Publishing Engine V 1.0 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 1440 http://www.tvguide.com/images/tvg_rss_logo.gif http://movies.tvguide.com/tea-mussolini/133892?rss=object http://video.tvguide.com/ID/819981?rss=object <p><a href="http://video.tvguide.com/ID/819981?rss=object"><img align="left" border="0" src="http://videodetective.com/photos/202/008489_6.jpg" width="60" height="45" alt="Tea With Mussolini" style="margin:0 5px 5px" /></a>Based in part on his autobiography, director Franco Zeffirelli's Tea With Mussolini is a drama with comic accents about a group of British and American travelers on an indefinite visit to Italy in 1935, when, as one character puts it, Mussolini was just a man who made the trains run on time. Luca (played by Charlie Lucas) is a boy living in Florence whose family situation is precarious at best; his mother has died and his father has little time for him. Fortunately, he's a welcome guest with Mary (Joan Plowright), a English woman visiting Italy to soak up European culture. Mary and her friends -- high-toned Lady Hester (Maggie Smith), pretentious Arabella (Judi Dench), American art collector Elsa (Cher) and cheerful lesbian Georgie (Lily Tomlin) -- enjoy the cultured, creative atmosphere of life in Italy, and their initial response to the rise of fascism is to arrange a polite meeting with Mussolini to make sure he and his soldiers mean well. After some time, Luca's father becomes concerned that the boy is so</p> Video Detective http://video.tvguide.com/ID/819981?rss=object Mon, 17 Mar 2008 05:56:34 -0400 <p><a href="http://video.tvguide.com/ID/819981?rss=object"><img align="left" border="0" src="http://videodetective.com/photos/202/008489_6.jpg" width="60" height="45" alt="Tea With Mussolini" style="margin:0 5px 5px" /></a>Based in part on his autobiography, director Franco Zeffirelli's Tea With Mussolini is a drama with comic accents about a group of British and American travelers on an indefinite visit to Italy in 1935, when, as one character puts it, Mussolini was just a man who made the trains run on time. Luca (played by Charlie Lucas) is a boy living in Florence whose family situation is precarious at best; his mother has died and his father has little time for him. Fortunately, he's a welcome guest with Mary (Joan Plowright), a English woman visiting Italy to soak up European culture. Mary and her friends -- high-toned Lady Hester (Maggie Smith), pretentious Arabella (Judi Dench), American art collector Elsa (Cher) and cheerful lesbian Georgie (Lily Tomlin) -- enjoy the cultured, creative atmosphere of life in Italy, and their initial response to the rise of fascism is to arrange a polite meeting with Mussolini to make sure he and his soldiers mean well. After some time, Luca's father becomes concerned that the boy is so</p> Tea With Mussolini