Household Saints
The Santangelos asked for a miracle. God gave them something slightly more complicated. Their daughter Teresa.
Plot Summary
A chronicle of three generations of Italian-American women struggling to get by in post-World War II New York’s Little Italy.
6.5 /10
1993
US
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