Movie: Fistful of Flies

Top 10 Billed Cast

Dina Panozzo
Dina Panozzo

Grace Lupi

Tasma Walton
Tasma Walton

Maria (Mars) Lupi

Maria Venuti
Maria Venuti

Magda

John Lucantonio
John Lucantonio

Joe Lupi

Anna Volska
Anna Volska

Nanna

Danielle Grima
Danielle Grima

Young Mars

Eamon Davern
Eamon Davern

Johnny

Giordano Gangl
Giordano Gangl

Ercole

Rosalba Paris
Rosalba Paris

Rosa

Mario Gamma
Mario Gamma

Eno

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    Sixteen-year-old Mars wants more from her life than just a fistful of flies which, to her, is a fistful of nothing. Stifled and dominated by her family, Mars just wants to be free. Denied relationships with the people who truly understand her, Mars battles her family on her own, and in her quest to be treated as a grown-up she gives her mother the courage to act and forces her father to make the choice of his life. A story about how a young girl finally finds the courage to have faith in herself.

  • Release Date

    1997-07-19

  • Average

    3.667

  • Rating:

    1.8 starts
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  • Languages:

    English
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