| My Name Is Tanino | |
| Director: | Paolo Virzì |
| Producer: | Vittorio Cecchi Gori Giovanni Lovatelli |
| Music: | Carlo Virzì |
| Cinematography: | Arnaldo Catinari |
| Editing: | Jacopo Quadri |
| Studio: | Cecchi Gori Group Whizbang Films Inc. |
| Distributor: | Medusa Film |
| Runtime: | 124 minutes |
| Country: | Italy Canada |
| Language: | Italian, English |
| Gross: | €1,044,026 (Italy) |
My Name Is Tanino is a 2002 comedy film directed by Paolo Virzì. The picaresque plot is about Tanino, an Italian liberal arts student who falls in love with a young American tourist he meets in Sicily and decides to track her down in the United States.[1]
Gaetano Mendolìa, nicknamed Tanino, is a native of the fictional Castelluzzo del Golfo, a small seaside resort in the province of Trapani, Sicily. He studies cinematography in Rome and dreams of becoming a movie director.
He meets Sally, an American girl vacationing in Italy, with whom he has a brief romance. At the end of her vacation, Sally returns to the fictional Seaport, Rhode Island but forgets her camera in Italy. Tanino decides to travel to the US with the pretext of returning Sally's camera to her but in addition to avoiding Italian military service. He leaves at night without telling anyone.
After arriving in America, Tanino has a series of adventures with the somewhat shady Li Causi family, Italian-Americans living in the US. Eventually, he leaves them and finally meets up with Sally and her "perfect" White Anglo-Saxon Protestant family, confounding them with his antics.
Later, Tanino escapes the clutches of the FBI by riding on the roof of a train and arrives in New York City where he meets his idol, director Seymour Chinawsky. However, Chinawsky is reduced to poverty and dies soon after promising to make a film with Tanino.
Despite Tanino's many misadventures, he always comes out on top because of his ingenuity.
Tanino Mendolia
Sally Garfield
Marinella, mother of Tanino
Santa Li Causi
Omobono
Angelina
Leslie Garfield
Mr. Garfield
Chinawsky
Jane Garfield
Melissa
Rosario
Carmelo,sodale di Rosario