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My House in Umbria

  • TV Movie
  • 20032003
  • TV-14TV-14
  • 1h 43m
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6.9/10
3.5K
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Maggie Smith in My House in Umbria (2003)
DramaMysteryRomance
An unlikely group of people find solace and friendship after being thrown together in the wake of a terrorist attack.An unlikely group of people find solace and friendship after being thrown together in the wake of a terrorist attack.An unlikely group of people find solace and friendship after being thrown together in the wake of a terrorist attack.
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    • Richard Loncraine
    • William Trevor(novella)
    • Hugh Whitemore(teleplay)
  • Stars
    • Maggie Smith
    • Ronnie Barker
    • Chris Cooper
    • Richard Loncraine
    • William Trevor(novella)
    • Hugh Whitemore(teleplay)
  • Stars
    • Maggie Smith
    • Ronnie Barker
    • Chris Cooper
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 59User reviews
    • 14Critic reviews
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    • Won 1 Primetime Emmy

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    Maggie Smith and Emmy Clarke in My House in Umbria (2003)
    Maggie Smith and Emmy Clarke in My House in Umbria (2003)
    Maggie Smith, Timothy Spall, Ronnie Barker, Chris Cooper, Benno Fürmann, and Emmy Clarke in My House in Umbria (2003)
    Maggie Smith in My House in Umbria (2003)
    Giancarlo Giannini in My House in Umbria (2003)
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    Maggie Smith and Emmy Clarke in My House in Umbria (2003)
    Maggie Smith and Emmy Clarke in My House in Umbria (2003)

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    Maggie Smith
    Maggie Smith
    • Mrs. Delahunty
    Ronnie Barker
    Ronnie Barker
    • General
    Chris Cooper
    Chris Cooper
    • Thomas Riversmith
    Benno Fürmann
    Benno Fürmann
    • Werner
    Giancarlo Giannini
    Giancarlo Giannini
    • Inspector Girotti
    Timothy Spall
    Timothy Spall
    • Quinty
    Libero De Rienzo
    Libero De Rienzo
    • Doctor Innocenti
    Emmy Clarke
    Emmy Clarke
    • Aimee
    Cecilia Dazzi
    • Rosa Crevelli
    Anna Longhi
    • Signora Barcini
    Deirdre Harrison
    • Phyllis
    Silvia De Santis
    • Madeleine
    Alison Cameron Adam
    • General's Daughter
    • (as Alison Adam)
    Lynn Swanson
    Lynn Swanson
    • Francine Riversmith
    Taddeo Harbutt
    • Young General
    Vittoria Colonna
    • Young Woman
    • (as Vittoria Colonna Di Stigliano)
    Yari Gugliucci
    • Terrorist
    Pietro Ragusa
    Pietro Ragusa
    • Terrorist
      • Richard Loncraine
      • William Trevor(novella)
      • Hugh Whitemore(teleplay)
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    • Trivia
      Mrs. Emily Delahunty's (Dame 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 post-war customers interested in a sporty yet comfortable vehicle.
    • Quotes

      Mrs. Emily Delahunty: In the garden, delphiniums were in flower. Through scented twilight, the girl in the white dress walked with a step as light as a morning cobweb. That evening she hadn't a care in the world.

    • Connections
      Featured in At the Movies: The Matrix Reloaded/Down with Love/My House in Umbria/Spellbound (2003)
    • Soundtracks
      Misty
      Music by Erroll Garner

      Lyrics by Johnny Burke

    User reviews59

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    9/10
    An underrated triumph
    Having just seen this film in the cinema, I have to say it didn't flag at all, and it was graced by one of Maggie Smith's greatest performances - and which fully deserved her Emmy award. The film dramatises the necessary illusions with which we need to live our lives. For Emily Delahunty, alcohol and the escapism of the romance fiction she writes are the props to her very existence. To keep sane the illusion of happiness sometimes is necessary to keep going. And yet, out of tragedy comes the hint of salvation: some kind of family, and a girl who becomes a symbol of how she can have hope for the future. This is not a cosy film, as some misguided critics have labelled it. It is not gardens, Italy, cups of tea: it is a film of illusion, escapism, isolation and the human spirit in the face of tragedy and death. Released in the UK after the quaint "Ladies in Lavender" it was unfortunately seen by the critics as exactly the same kind of film - and so missing the point completely.

    Playing the troubled alcoholic, a vulnerable ageing romance novelist, Smith is on amazing form. Never mannered, she is perfect in her second role in a William Trevor novella (her first was in the 1984 "Mrs Silly" for ITV in the UK, for which she was nominated for a BAFTA). Using those expressive eyes, and a crushed, occasionally slurred voice, she draws you into the film. If this makes me sound like a Smith groupie, I have to point out that I disliked intensely this actress's mannered caricatures in such films as "Tea with Mussolini" or "Washington Square" (though, faced with the awful scripts, maybe she decided just to push it for laughs...). That is why she deserves recognition for this film: she reminds us that, with the right material, she can be the best - and not just the witty old bat in "Gosford Park" or the the stern teacher in "Harry Potter". After Smith's Emmy award, it was criminal that Meryl Streep robbed Dame Maggie at the Golden Globes for her raiding of the dressing-up box in "Angels in America".

    For the supporting cast, Ronnie Barker, Timothy Spall, and Chris Cooper are all superb: understated, natural, and working in a brilliant ensemble. They have such rapport with Smith that the film just whizzes by.
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    • Dec 28, 2004

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    • Release date
      • May 25, 2003 (United States)
      • United Kingdom
      • Italy
      • United States
      • HBO (United States)
      • English
      • Italian
      • German
      • Latin
    • Also known as
    • Filming locations
      • Cinecittà Studios, Cinecittà, Rome, Lazio, Italy
    • Production companies
      • HBO Films
      • Canine Films
      • Panorama Films
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    • 1 hour 43 minutes
      • Color
      • Dolby Digital

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