
Passionada (2003)
The film is a romantic comedy about a Portuguese widow whose husband had been a fisherman who died at sea. The widow’s teenage daughter wants to be a professional gambler and she convinces her mother to date a British man whose new in town. The widow falls for the Brit, who pretends to be in the fishing business but is actually a professional gambler. The naive daughter gets into some trouble.
Director: Dan Ireland
Actors: Emmy Rossum, Jason Isaacs, Marion Eaton, Seymour Cassel, Sofia Milos, Theresa Russell