BBC - BBC Four Storyville - Nine Good Teeth



	NINE GOOD TEETH Alex Halpern, USA, 2002 Tuesday 15 July 2003 10.30pm-11.45pm

	Family photographs and home movies celebrate the eventful life of Alex Halpern's extraordinary Italian-American grandmother.


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			Commissioner's Comment Nick Fraser Storyville Series Editor

	Alex Halpern's film is about his grandmother, Mary 'Nana' Cavaliere, and her nine good teeth. At the time of filming she is 102 and still going strong but the film is also a fascinating account of three generations of Sicilian-Jewish-American life. It's as if John Waters had joined forces with Francis Ford Coppola to create a home movie. You really can't believe these people are real, but they are. Storyville Homepage