Aug. 11 is the DVD debut date that Cinema Libre has selected
for writer/director Mikki del Monico’s laugh-out-loud “Lesbian Mob Comedy,” Alto.
Actress/songstress Diana DeGarmo (2004 season of American
Idol, plus a regular on The Young and the Restless) stars as
Francesca "Frankie" Del Vecchio, the lead singer of working band, The
Altos. Life is good, it is just a
matter of time before she marries the handsome Tony (Jake Robards — Lucky
Them, Cadillac Records) … it will be a big Italian wedding, you can
count on that.
Yes, Francesca is Italian through-and-through from the
culture and traditions to the food, except for one thing — all of that Mafia
mumbo-jumbo, which she finds abhorrent.
Her sister, Heather (Melanie Minichino), is just the opposite and views
the whole “mob scene” as a kind of a cool aspect of their culture … they even
have heated debates over the merits of the popular television series, Mob
Hit (think: The Sopranos).
So imagine Frankie’s surprise when she finds a dead body in
the trunk of her rental car. Whoa! Alto is a comedy about
Italian-American culture, so this little “hit” — or as it might be better
described as “that guy in the trunk who got whacked” — is just the catalyst to
get things rolling. And roll they do!
Heather convinces her sister to just show up at the funeral
to check things out who that guy was and see if anyone might be a likely
candidate as a suspect.
It is there that the second big surprise awaits
Frankie. That comes in the form of
Nicolette (Natalie Knepp), the daughter of mob boss Caesar “The General”
Bellafusco (Billy Worth). The chemistry
is electric.
As the two grow closer, not only is Frankie’s neat little
world turned on its head, but the thing she hates the most, the mob, becomes
the focus point of her life as she becomes privy to information that there are
plans afoot for Caesar to be “sleeping with the fishes!”
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