An unlikely group of people find solace and friendship after being thrown together in the wake of a terrorist attack.
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| Maggie Smith | ... | Mrs. Delahunty | |
| Ronnie Barker | ... | General | |
| Chris Cooper | ... | Thomas Riversmith | |
| Benno Fürmann | ... | Werner | |
| Giancarlo Giannini | ... | Inspector Girotti | |
| Timothy Spall | ... | Quinty | |
| Libero De Rienzo | ... | Doctor Innocenti | |
| Emmy Clarke | ... | Aimee | |
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Cecilia Dazzi | ... | Rosa Crevelli |
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Anna Longhi | ... | Signora Barcini |
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Deirdre Harrison | ... | Phyllis |
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Silvia De Santis | ... | Madeleine |
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Alison Cameron Adam | ... | General's Daughter (as Alison Adam) |
| Lynn Swanson | ... | Francine Riversmith | |
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Taddeo Harbutt | ... | Young General |
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After surviving a gruesome terrorist attack on an Italian train line, romance novelist Emily Delahunty opens up her home and solitary life to a trio of stranded survivors. She soon forms friendships with each, but develops a special attachment to the young orphan Aimee. So when Aimee's distant uncle arrives to retrieve the girl, Emily strives to convince the cold, mourning man that Umbria is Aimee's rightful home. Written by Jwelch5742
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25 May 2003 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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Written by Ivory Joe Hunter and Herbert Leventhal
Performed by Ray Charles
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Maggie Smith's car is an Alfa Romeo 6C-2500, produced between 1947 and 1953. It is a five-seat touring car popular with affluent postwar customers interested in a sporty yet comfortable vehicle. See more »Quotes
Mrs. Emily Delahunty: My real parents were... travellig entertainers. They had no use for a child. "Not the sort of people you'd care for", said the mother who wasn't my mother. The people I lived with couldn't have children. They bought me.See more »
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If I Give You My LoveWritten by Ivory Joe Hunter and Herbert Leventhal
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The HBO TV movie "My House in Umbria" should be seen primarily for the complex and layered performance of divine Maggie Smith. As romance novelist Emily Delahunty, she projects an image of refinement and elegance that conceals a deeper, darker self. That self is revealed slowly, and we find hidden within a character that is not only at variance with Miss Delahunty's adopted persona, but also very different from the prim and proper ladies Maggie Smith habitually plays on the silver screen. We see that Miss Smith is capable even of being seductive and slatternly, most unlike her many repressed and spinsterish roles.
Maggie Smith has the kind of mesmerizing voice and marvelous diction that would enable her to entertain film audiences by reading the proverbial telephone book. I am reminded of Glenda Jackson's (virtual) one-woman show in "Stevie" and Joanne Woodward's voice-over of "The Age of Innocence".
The rest of the characters in "My House in Umbria" are, alas, a motley crew, sketched in only very lightly, merely second bananas to Maggie Smith's central figure. The time of the story is difficult to pin down based on the clothes and motor cars, but one imagines it takes place during the 1970s, the era of the Bader-Meinhof gang in Germany and the Red Brigades in Italy. The denouement is a little too pat, but the journey is still well worth our while.
One of the key questions raised in the film is what anger would drive a human being to commit an act of terror. But it becomes quickly apparent that political terrorism is not the only kind of "man's inhumanity to man" that is intended here. The focus is, rather, on innocence shattered and destroyed, the cruelty visited by individuals upon each other, the sense of guilt that it engenders, and the possibility of forgiveness and redemption that always, always exists if we "seize the day" and allow ourselves to be happy.