Completed - ENGLISH-UNITED STATES - Drama, Comedy, First film - 75 minutes
An injured college basketball star comes home to run the family’s coffee shop (Americano) after graduation, where he reunites with his high school friends and attempts to thwart a local businessman’s quest to take ownership of the business.
Year of production : 2024 Writer(s) : Deny GALLAGHER Cast : Darren WEISS, Rondell SHERIDAN, Samuel DUNNING Producer(s) : Deny GALLAGHER (Palomino Productions LLC)
Jack Armstrong is a recent college graduate whose dream of playing professional basketball comes crashing down after tearing his ACL during his senior year of college. He comes home to rehab in hopes of resuming his hoop dreams while running the Armstrong family’s coffee shop called Americano. His group of friends, Maria, Antonio, and Mak, are also back in town and hanging around the coffee shop waiting for adulthood to begin. Meanwhile, long-time Armstrong family nemesis George Laslo has reemerged in his latest effort to take the coffee shop and turn the land into luxury condos. He enlists, Dara, who has her own motives and intentions for the coffee shop, but her unlikely connection to Jack’s past puts the future of both the coffee shop and the friend group in danger. ‘Americano’ is a coming-of-age story wrapped in a heist movie where the only certainty is change.
Country(ies) : USA
Toronto - TIFF 2024