Household Saints

Household Saints is a leisurely-paced portrait of three different generations of working-class, New York-based, Italian women. Carmela Santangelo (Judith Malina) is an elderly immigrant whose son (Vincent D'Onofrio) wins a wife, Catherine Falconetti (Tracey Ullman), during a pinochle game. The pair ...more

Based on the novel by Francine Prose, Household Saints is an intimate drama that explores the nature of faith and miracles in the lives of three generations. The older Carmela Santangelo (Judith Malina) takes the Italian grandmother stereotype and darkens it a bit, into a woman soured by her own beliefs and traditions. She rejects her dowdy daughter-in-law, Catherine Falconetti (a miscast Tracey Ullman), who is put upon by her father and betrothed to her husband as a result of a bet in a card ...more