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DVD Details
- Rated: PG
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 1 hours, 45 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: November 16, 1999
- Originally Released: 1999
- Label: Mgm (Video & Dvd)
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Cher & Judi Dench | |
Performer: | Joan Plowright, Maggie Smith, Lily Tomlin, Charlie Lucas & Baird Wallace | |
Directed by | Franco Zeffirelli |
Entertainment Reviews:
This satisfying film reveals the ways in which a village can successfully raise a child.
Full Review
Spirituality and Practice
Rating: 3.5/4 --
Cher shines with the spirit of 'Life is Beautiful.'
Full Review
Hollywood Report Card
...It works surprisingly well....The film has truly novel subject matter....Cher is terrific here doing what she does best...
USA Today
Rating: 3/4 --
A collection of isolated, anecdotal events that are as warmly amusing as they are lacking in narrative drive.
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TheMovieReport.com
...Lively, fanciful....An amusing yet touching high adventure and an unusual coming-of-age tale...
Los Angeles Times
Rating: D --
Art and suffocating tastefulness are taken as such inherent goods in [this film] that they utterly overwhelm the real people whom the film pretends to showcase.
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Nick's Flick Picks
...Cher and Tomlin play the Americans with gusto...
Box Office
Product Description:
In this gently comic coming of age story, set in Florence over the course of the 1930s and 1940s, the illegitimate son of an Italian merchant is raised by a group of prim English ladies whose passion for Italian culture have made them permanent residents. With the rise of Mussolini and the outbreak of war, the ladies are interned as prisoners, and the boy risks his life to help them. It's a lushly photographed ensemble piece that instills in the viewer Zeffirelli's contagious passion for Italian art and affection for these brave ladies.