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Somewhere

  • 20102010
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  • 1h 37m
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6.3/10
45K
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Stephen Dorff and Elle Fanning in Somewhere (2010)
 	A hard-living Hollywood actor re-examines his life after his 11-year-old daughter surprises him with a visit
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After withdrawing to the Chateau Marmont, a passionless Hollywood actor reexamines his life when his eleven-year-old daughter surprises him with a visit.After withdrawing to the Chateau Marmont, a passionless Hollywood actor reexamines his life when his eleven-year-old daughter surprises him with a visit.After withdrawing to the Chateau Marmont, a passionless Hollywood actor reexamines his life when his eleven-year-old daughter surprises him with a visit.
IMDb RATING
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45K
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  • Director
    • Sofia Coppola
  • Writer
    • Sofia Coppola
  • Stars
    • Stephen Dorff
    • Elle Fanning
    • Chris Pontius
Top credits
  • Director
    • Sofia Coppola
  • Writer
    • Sofia Coppola
  • Stars
    • Stephen Dorff
    • Elle Fanning
    • Chris Pontius
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 231User reviews
    • 300Critic reviews
    • 67Metascore
  • See more at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 4 wins & 8 nominations

    Videos3

    Somewhere
    Trailer 1:53
    Somewhere
    A Guide to the Films of Sofia Coppola
    Clip 2:12
    A Guide to the Films of Sofia Coppola
    Somewhere: Exclusive Featurette
    Featurette 3:41
    Somewhere: Exclusive Featurette

    Photos141

    Chris Pontius in Somewhere (2010)
    Elle Fanning in Somewhere (2010)
    Stephen Dorff and Elle Fanning in Somewhere (2010)
    Stephen Dorff and Michelle Monaghan in Somewhere (2010)
    Stephen Dorff and Elle Fanning in Somewhere (2010)
    Elle Fanning in Somewhere (2010)
    Elle Fanning in Somewhere (2010)
    Stephen Dorff in Somewhere (2010)
    Stephen Dorff and Elle Fanning in Somewhere (2010)
    Stephen Dorff and Elle Fanning in Somewhere (2010)
    Elle Fanning in Somewhere (2010)
    Stephen Dorff in Somewhere (2010)

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    Stephen Dorff
    Stephen Dorff
    • Johnny Marcoas Johnny Marco
    Elle Fanning
    Elle Fanning
    • Cleoas Cleo
    Chris Pontius
    Chris Pontius
    • Sammyas Sammy
    Erin Wasson
    Erin Wasson
    • Party Girl #1as Party Girl #1
    Alexandra Williams
    • Party Girl #2as Party Girl #2
    Nathalie Fay
    Nathalie Fay
    • Party Girl #3as Party Girl #3
    Kristina Shannon
    Kristina Shannon
    • Bambias Bambi
    Karissa Shannon
    Karissa Shannon
    • Cindyas Cindy
    John Prudhont
    John Prudhont
    • Chateau Patio Waiteras Chateau Patio Waiter
    Ruby Corley
    • Patio Girlas Patio Girl
    Angela Lindvall
    Angela Lindvall
    • Blonde in Mercedesas Blonde in Mercedes
    Maryna Linchuk
    Maryna Linchuk
    • Vampire Modelas Vampire Model
    Meghan Collison
    • Vampire Modelas Vampire Model
    Jessica Miller
    • Vampire Modelas Vampire Model
    Lala Sloatman
    Lala Sloatman
    • Laylaas Layla
    Renée Roca
    • Ice Skating Instructoras Ice Skating Instructor
    • (as Renee Roca)
    Aurélien Wiik
    Aurélien Wiik
    • French Guyas French Guy
    • (as Aurelien Wiik)
    Lauren Hastings
    • Pretty Girlas Pretty Girl
    • Director
      • Sofia Coppola
    • Writer
      • Sofia Coppola
    • All cast & crew
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    Storyline

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    Did you know

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    • Trivia
      Sofia Coppola wrote the role of Johnny Marco with Stephen Dorff in mind.
    • Goofs
      Cleo toggles between having and not having braces from scene to scene. This is most noticeable in scenes in the living room with Sammy and scenes in Johnny's car.
    • Quotes

      Johnny Marco: What's that book about again?

      Cleo: It's about this girl that's in love with this guy. But he's a vampire, and his whole family's vampires. So she can't really be with him.

      Johnny Marco: Why doesn't she become one too?

      Cleo: Because she can't. He doesn't want to turn her into a vampire. And if she gets too close to him, he won't be able to help himself.

      Johnny Marco: Oh, man.

    • Connections
      Featured in The Rotten Tomatoes Show: Toy Story 3/Cyrus/Jonah Hex (2010)
    • Soundtracks
      Love Like A Sunset Part I
      Written by Thomas Mars, Christian Mazzalai, Laurent Brancowitz, Deck D'Arcy

      Performed by Phoenix

      Courtesy of Ghettoblaster S.A.R.L. under exclusive license to V2 Records International Ltd. t/a Cooperative Music

      Under license from Universal Music Operations Ltd. and Glassnote Entertainment Group LLC

      By Arrangement with Zync Music Inc.

    User reviews231

    Review
    Top review
    6/10
    Technically a well-made character study, but difficult to care for
    In a nearby safari park the wardens have taken steps to alleviate depression amongst the gorillas, they hide their food from them or leave it in hard to get places; this saves the gorillas having to sit around, eat, copulate and vegetate. Hollywood A-lister Johnny has this gorilla depression, everything he could possibly want comes at the end of a telephone call. Even the most difficult banana of all, sex, is available by scratching the back of his neck and signalling his assent, or at the end of another phone call if he's feeling especially lazy (which is often).

    I once heard it said that rich people live years in the span of a single day, and Johnny certainly does have that flow of experiences coming at him, but the problem for him is that there's no feeling (let's all take a moment to have a boohoo for Johnny). He can barely stifle yawns when his eleven-year-old daughter Cleo, on a custody visit, shows him how she has become a brilliant ice skater and cooks him perfect eggs Benedict for breakfast. Life's too easy and it's suffocating him. There is a suspicion that he's a fluke, that his surfer-boy looks and beatific smile have carried him to the top, but I think there must have been some drive once, as evidenced by a faltering but very pretty rendition of Bach's Goldberg Variation #1.

    Ultimately, Johnny Marco has the kind of problems that everyone else wants, and so it's very difficult to feel for him. The movie doesn't have any contrast either, none of the harsh realities of normal Californian workaday lives makes it to the screen. After the decadence of Marie Antoinette I kind of wondered whether Sofia was aware of normality, or whether she just grew up in Arcadia with the other film kids who turn up in the special thanks section at the end of the credits. Johnny Marco is probably the most complacent human alive, but the film doesn't exactly scream that, perhaps because Sofia Coppola doesn't know it. Another flaw is that Coppola's alter-ego Cleo has a decidedly airbrushed personality.

    The detail was a big highlight of this film, time seems to have been spent getting the authenticity of the trappings of wealth. Johnny has a bottle of Château Pétrus on the bedside table (retails from $1,000 to $30,000 depending on vintage), chambréed to vinegar, and propped up on a wall is a lithograph by that master of Californian alienation, Ed Ruscha ("Cold beer, beautiful women", $10,000 to a cool million depending on whether it's a limited edition lithograph or the original painting). Other nice details give you insight into character, including a pill bottle of Propecia in his bathroom (prevents male pattern balding), which says he's worried about the onset of middle age, and the player name he has on his games console, 20thCenturyBoy, a sign that he's become his persona.

    The cinematography is the second plus, though it's not exactly adventurous the filmmakers were prepared to let the action drift out of shot when they felt like it.

    I think Somewhere is a difficult film to watch twice because there's very little connection for a non-wealthy person, the film's torpor has a complacent lull to it which is a little hard to bear. Thematically, I'm not convinced that I've seen mature filmmaking from Sofia Coppola yet.
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    • Dec 30, 2010

    Details

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    • Release date
      • January 21, 2011 (United States)
    • Countries of origin
      • United States
      • United Kingdom
      • Italy
      • Japan
    • Official sites
      • Official site (France)
      • Official site (Japan)
    • Languages
      • English
      • Italian
    • Also known as
      • En un rincon del corazon
    • Filming locations
      • Hotel Principe Di Savoia, Milan, Lombardia, Italy
    • Production companies
      • Focus Features
      • Pathé Distribution
      • Medusa Film
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    Box office

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    • Budget
      • $7,000,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $1,785,645
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $119,086
      • Dec 26, 2010
    • Gross worldwide
      • $14,788,642
    See detailed box office info on IMDbPro

    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 37 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • DTS
      • Dolby Digital
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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