{"id":3707,"date":"2025-11-16T09:55:47","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T09:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/watchtowatch.top\/the-florentine-1999\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T09:55:47","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T09:55:47","slug":"the-florentine-1999","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/watchtowatch.top\/?p=3707","title":{"rendered":"The Florentine (1999)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/watchtowatch.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/sErgwOIFeP4cvg93HotWEyDMGhi.jpg\" alt=\"The Florentine (1999)\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A slice-of-life story unfolds inside The Florentine, a bar in a Pennsylvania steel town whose brightest days are behind it, leaving behind many of life&#8217;s disillusioned &#8220;losers.&#8221; Its owner, Whitey, is deep in debt to the town&#8217;s loan shark, Joe McCollough, and desperate for a path forward which won&#8217;t cost him the bar. His sister, Molly, is days away from her long-awaited nuptials, and then her former fianc\u00e9, Teddy, shows up in town for the first time since leaving her at the altar years before. Ne&#8217;er-do-well Billy Belasco runs a con on Frankie to steal the money for the wedding caterer, while long-time regular Bobby becomes a patron-cum-inhabitant as he hides from his fast-crumbling marriage to Vikki. Every plot in this multi-layered story seems to be at its nadir just as a pair of unlikely heroes emerge out of the backdrop to turn everything around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A slice-of-life story unfolds inside The Florentine, a bar in a Pennsylvania steel town whose brightest days are behind it, leaving behind many of life&#8217;s disillusioned &#8220;losers.&#8221; Its owner, Whitey, is deep&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3706,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchtowatch.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchtowatch.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchtowatch.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchtowatch.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchtowatch.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/watchtowatch.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchtowatch.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchtowatch.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchtowatch.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchtowatch.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}