- Italian tailor Mike Esposito makes suits for mafia Don Piano and falls into a moral dilemma.
- Set in post-World War II Manhattan, Sharkskin tells the story of custom tailor Mike Esposito's encounters with local mobsters who run the neighborhood. Mike is drawn into the mob when Mafia Don Piano orders Mike to make a suit for a special occasion. Mike becomes enamored with and later repelled by the mob's operations and whereby he confronts his morality and principles that he lives by and puts his family in jeopardy.—Dan Perri
- If they made a movie of The Sopranos, Sharkskin would be it! This charming comedy crime drama is full of chuckle inducing dialog and small situations that captures the human comedy in all of us.
Written and brought to the screen by the detailed eye of director Dan Perri. Amusing and enjoyable in a very relaxed and warmly human way, Sharkskin has gentle moral threads and touches on ethical situations that guide us in our lives.
Sharkskin's story tells the tales of tailor Mike Esposito and his unexpected relationship with neighborhood crime boss "Fat Angelo" Piano. To make Piano a special suit, Mike has to give up his morals and principles to do it.
Chided by his son, Sammy, Mike finally has to confront Don Piano, his wife, Lilly and his own ethics to extricate himself and his family from the clutches of the mafia.
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