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Before It Had a Name (2005) -- A young Italian woman inherits from her deceased lover an enigmatic modern house in the New York country side, and goes to see it for the first time. When she arrives she meets the caretaker of the house...
Before It Had a Name (2005) -- A young Italian woman inherits from her deceased lover an enigmatic modern house in the New York country side, and goes to see it for the first time. When she arrives she meets the caretaker of the house...
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Overview

User Rating:
3.3/10   355 votes
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Director:
Writers:
Giada Colagrande (writer)
Willem Dafoe (writer)
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Release Date:
2007 (USA) more
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Plot:
A young Italian woman inherits from her deceased lover an enigmatic modern house in the New York country side, and goes to see it for the first time. When she arrives she meets the caretaker of the house... | add synopsis
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(2 articles)
The Hot Five!!
 (From JoBlo. 16 July 2009, 5:15 PM, PDT)

Dafoe Weds in Secret
 (From WENN. 7 July 2005)

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Plot less & Pointless more (19 total)

Cast

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Willem Dafoe ... Leslie

Giada Colagrande ... Eleonora

Seymour Cassel ... Jeff

Isaach De Bankolé ... Waiter
Emily McDonnell ... Gail
Claudio Botosso ... Karl

Bari Hyman ... Local Policewoman

Spenser Leigh ... Girl crossing street
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
The Black Widow (USA) (DVD title)
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MPAA:
Rated PG-13 for sexual content and brief violence.
Runtime:
USA:90 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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Spoofs "The French Chef" (1962) more
Soundtrack:
Domani e un Altro Giorno (The Wonders you Perform) more

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23 out of 34 people found the following comment useful.
Plot less & Pointless, 31 January 2006
1/10
Author: defcharlie from United Kingdom

This title seems more like a filming exercise than a film that should have been released to be seen by the public. For Dafoe and his wife it must have been fun working together in a film for the first time, without taking into consideration that people might actually watch it. I felt like it was 90mins wasted as I waited anxiously for a plot to develop, or even begin.

Try to fit this film into a genre and you won't, because it lacks a beginning, middle or ending. I've seen 'arty' movies before and this doesn't even come close to being arty, abstract or original, it just seems to me to be completely pointless.

I think it speaks for itself when the only persons that rated this film a 10 were the under 18 age group. No doubt for the constant pointless erotic scenes that the film was insistent on throwing at us. That is if you can call it erotic. It certainly didn't have taste.

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