If family drama is getting you down console yourself – with someone else's family drama.

This month the Bermuda International Film Festival (BIFF) film series will be showing 'Once More with Feeling', a dramatic comedy highlighting a family's bonds in the face of life's temptations.

It was an official selection of the Sundance Film Festival and is reported to be brimming with wit, heart and music and showcases a wonderful ensemble cast.

The plotline revolves around the Gregorio family where both 60-year-old Frank and daughter Lana (Drea de Matteo) are having parallel mid-life crises. (Sixty is the new 40).

In this movie about family, love and chance encounters, it takes three generations of Italian-Americans to set Frank and Lana straight.

Frank is a successful psychiatrist, loving husband, and doting grandfather to the two children of his eldest daughter, Lana.

When the universe conspires to introduce him to karaoke through both a patient's parent issues and his precocious granddaughter's birthday party, Frank redicovers his first love – music.

While his wife, Angelina (Maria Tucci), believes he's just practicing to sing at their younger daughter's upcoming wedding, Frank befriends a karaoke aficionado, Lydia (Linda Fiorentino), a femme fatale who has other plans for the would-be crooner.

Simultaneously, the sarcastic and stressed Lana grows increasingly neurotic about her post pregnancy weight and flagging marriage and contemplates wild solutions including an affair with a hunky cop. Will it be Botox or a baby? An affair or a job?

Meanwhile, Angelina, the matriarch, is perplexed by her family's detour into soap opera-esque drama.

Suddenly, her husband is a karaoke fiend, her oldest daughter has gone cuckoo, her youngest is marrying an Irish baccala, her three-year-old grandson is not yet potty trained and then there is her father-in-law…

"This film typifies true indie filmmaking," said Aideen Ratteray Pryse, BIFF's festival director. "Director Jeff Lipsky engaged the experienced actor Chazz Palminteri for a leading role and he lends his obvious talents to a film outside the (major or mini) studio system.

"You may not know but Palminteri was a singer before he was an actor and he is not 'voiced over' for this part. This film has flair and emotion."

'Once More with Feeling' will screen once at the Tradewinds Auditorium of the BUEI tonight at 6.30 p.m. Tickets are $10 ($8 for BIFF Film Club members) and are available at the door one hour before the screening time. For information or to make a reservation, e-mail info@biff.bm.