Household Saints

Household Saints is a 1993 film starring Tracey Ullman, Vincent DOnofrio, and Lili Taylor. It was based on the novel by Francine Prose and directed by Nancy Savoca. The film explores the lives of three generations of ItalianAmerican women over the course of the latterhalf of the 20th century. The films executive producer is Jonathan Demme, a longtime friend of Savocas, and her first real employer in the world of film.

The film also focuses on Catherine and Josephs daughter Teresa Taylor, a devout Catholic more similar to her superstitious grandmother than with her modernized and secularized parents. As a child and young adult she puts herself through a series of trials so that she might one day be canonized as a saint. Teresas teenage fantasy to become a nun is strained after starting a relationship with a marriageminded young man Michael Imperioli.The film explores both family dynamics over the course of time as well as, on a larger level, the relationship between religious faith in miracles and modernity. ........

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