A mystery-thriller about an Italian woman who moves to Davenport to open a restaurant. After her husband commits suicide, she spends fifteen years recovering at a Minnesota mental hospital. When she builds herself up enough to begin another restaurant, she discovers that a murder took place there fifty years earlier. She decides to investigate and finds a secret plot.
Direction
Pupi Avati's giallo roots meet Minnesota Nice.
Production
That restaurant set deserves its own Michelin star.
Acting
Laura Morante's tremor could shatter glass.
Director
Pupi Avati
Laura Morante
Lei
Rita Tushingham
Paula Hardyn
Burt Young
Mueller
Treat Williams
Padre Amy
Yvonne Sciò
Ella Murray
Giovanni Lombardo Radice
Vincent
Sydne Rome
Mrs. Wittenmeyer
Angela Goodwin
Mother Superior
Angela Pagano
Liuba
Clive Riche
paziente psichiatrico
Massimo Sarchielli
Fornitore di vino
Francesco Carnelutti
Dr. Moes
Venantino Venantini
Installatore telefonico
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Pupi Avati shot this in Iowa standing in for Minnesota because the actual Davenport locals kept offering too much unsolicited advice about Italian cooking.
The restaurant's name, 'The Hideout,' was originally a Prohibition-era speakeasy—a detail Avati insisted on despite distributors wanting something more 'marketable' like 'Bella Notte.'
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