Factory sealed DVD</br></br>Product Description</br></br>JOIN A ONCE-IN-A-LIFETIME CAST FOR SOME CULTURE?? EXCITEMENT AND TEA?? WITH THIS CHARMING AND PICTURESQUE DRAMA ABOUT "ROUP OF ECCENTRIC WOMEN WHO WILL LET NOTHING GET BETWEEN THEM AND THEIR CIVILIZED LIFESTYLE?? EVEN WORLD WAR II. SPECIAL FEATURES: BEHIND-THE-SCENES BOOKLET AND THEATRICAL TRAILER.</br></br>Amazon.com</br></br>In filming this semi-autobiographical account of life in Italy during  the dawn of World War II?? director Franco Zeffirelli imbues <I>Tea with Mussolini</I> with the mixed blessings of fond reminiscence. It's a warmly inviting film?? as impeccable as any Merchant-Ivory production?? but like a hazy memory it's uncertain in its narrative intentions. And yet with an exceptional cast to compensate?? the film's as engaging as it is inconsequential.<p>  Zeffirelli's alter ego is Luca (Charlie Lucas in youth; Baird Wallace as a teenager)?? who is raised in Florence by Mary (Joan Plowright)?? the middle-aged secretary of his absentee father. Luca lives among a loose band of British and American women?? nicknamed "ioni" for their stinging wit in the shadows of Mussolini's thuggish dictatorsh