My House in Umbria
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| Directed by | Richard Loncraine |
| Produced by | Robert Allan Ackerman |
| Written by | Hugh Whitemore (based on the novella by William Trevor) |
| Starring | Maggie Smith Chris Cooper Timothy Spall |
| Music by | Claudio Capponi Kurt Weill (end title "September Song") |
| Cinematography | Marco Pontecorvo |
| Editing by | Humphrey Dixon |
| Distributed by | Home Box Office |
| Release date(s) | 2003 |
| Running time | 109 min |
| Language | English |
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My House in Umbria is a 2003 movie. The film stars Maggie Smith and was directed by Richard Loncraine.
Tagline: When you open your door to strangers, you never know who might come in.
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[edit] Main Cast
- Maggie Smith — Mrs. Emily Delahunty
- Chris Cooper — Thomas Riversmith
- Timothy Spall — Quinty
- Emmy Clarke — Aimee
- Ronnie Barker — The General
- Benno Fürmann — Werner
- Giancarlo Giannini — Inspector Girotti
[edit] Plot Summary
After a train is a victim of a terrorist attack, Mrs. Delahunty (Maggie Smith), an Englishwoman and author of romance novels invites several of the recovering survivors back to her Italian villa while they recuperate. One of the survivors, young American girl named Aimee, lost her parents in the wreck and has been traumatized into muteness, who all the survivors take to quite quickly.
Responding to the warmness of the survivors, a young German man named Werner in particular, Aimee begins speaking again as local authorities seek relatives who might be able to take her in. Eventually, her uncle (Chris Cooper) is found who, along with his wife Francine, are professionals studying carpenter ants and have no children of their own, although Francine does have kids from a previous marriage. The couple agrees to take the child back home with them, but makes it painfully clear that they are doing it only because they feel obligated to Tom's deceased sister and brother-in-law.
Mrs. Delahunty works hard in attempt to find common ground with the uncle and make him reconsider taking the child back to America to a loveless new home. She convinces him to leave without her, and Aimee gets her dream come true to stay with Emily.
[edit] Trivia
- Based on the novel of the same name by William Trevor.
- Much of the movie was filmed on site in Italy, including Cinecittà, Rome, Lazio, Siena, and Tuscany.
