The Italian film industry must be in sad shape when its latest import to the US is a tired bit of trash from 1997, “To Die for Tano.”

It won two prizes in Italy’s version of the Oscars then, but things haven’t been the same since the days of Fellini, De Sica and Visconti.

“Tano” is a musical comedy that tries to evoke laughs by making fun of the Mafia. (Sounds dangerous.)

Specifically, it concerns a butcher and small-time mobster named Tano Guarrasi, who is whacked one day in his shop, leaving behind four repressed sisters.

“Tano” proceeds to musically recount the butcher’s rise and fall, using people plucked from the streets of a Mafia neighborhood in Palermo.

That’s certainly a good hook for a movie, but director/co-writer Roberta Torre doesn’t follow through. Watching overweight women howl about Tano quickly grows tiresome in this one-note comedy.