My Name Is Tanino

My Name is Tanino
Directed by	Paolo Virzì
Produced by	Vittorio Cecchi Gori Giovanni Lovatelli
Written by	Francesco Bruni Francesco Piccolo Paolo Virzì
Starring	Corrado Fortuna Rachel McAdams
Music by	Carlo Virzì
Cinematography	Arnaldo Catinari
Edited by	Jacopo Quadri
Production company	Cecchi Gori Group Whizbang Films Inc.
Distributed by	Medusa Film
Release date	5 July 2002 (2002-07-05) (Venice Film Festival)
Running time	124 minutes
Country	Italy Canada
Language	Italian, English
Box office	€1,044,026 (Italy)

My Name is Tanino is a 2002 comedy film directed by Paolo Virzì. The picaresque plot is about Tanino, an Italian liberal arts student who falls in love with a young American tourist he met in Sicily and decides to track her down in the United States.

Gaetano Mendollia, nicknamed Tanino, is a native of the fictional Castelluzzo del Golfo, a small, Sicilian, seaside resort in the province of Trapani. He studies cinematography in Rome and dreams to become someday a movie director.

He meets Sally, an American girl on vacation, with whom he had a brief romance. At the end of her vacation, Sally returns to the fictional Seaport, Rhode Island but forgets her camera in Italy. Tanino decides to travel to the US with the pretext of returning Sally's camera to her but also to avoid Italian military service. He leaves at night without warning anyone.

Tanino has a series of adventures with the Li Cause, an Italian-American family that lives in the US, a funny but also a bit 'shady family, and then, escaping from them, he brings chaos in Sally's "perfect" WASP family.

Finally, after escaping from FBI and travelling on the roof of the train, Tanino arrives in New York City. Here he meets his idol, director Seymour Chinawsky (rival by name and style of Charles Bukowski), now reduced to poverty, who dies soon after promising to do a film with him. Tanino always comes out as the winner in every situation because of its ingenuity.