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 | Dame 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 Dame Maggie Smith and Chris Cooper 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] Cast
- Dame Maggie Smith as Mrs. Emily Delahunty
- Chris Cooper as Thomas Riversmith
- Timothy Spall as Quinty
- Emmy Clarke as Aimee
- Ronnie Barker as The General
- Benno Fürmann as Werner
- Giancarlo Giannini as Inspector Girotti
[edit] Plot
Following a terrorist attack on a train, Emily Delahunty (Maggie Smith), a British romantic novelist, invites several of the recovering survivors to her Italian villa for recuperation. One of the survivors, a young American girl named Aimee, has lost her parents in the wreck and has been traumatized into muteness.
Responding to the warmth of the survivors and of a young German called Werner in particular, Aimee begins to speak again. Meanwhile, local authorities seek relatives who might be able to take her in. Eventually, her uncle (Chris Cooper) is found. He and his wife, Francine, are professionals studying carpenter ants and have no children of their own, although Francine does have children from a previous marriage. The couple agree to take Aimee home with them, but they make it painfully clear that they are doing so only because they feel obligated to Tom's deceased sister and brother-in-law.
Emily works hard to find common ground with the uncle and to make him reconsider taking the child back to America to a loveless new home. She convinces him to leave without her and Aimee's dream comes true when she stays on with Emily.
[edit] Trivia
- Based on the novel of the same name by William Trevor.
- Much of the film was made on location in Italy, including Cinecittà, Rome, Lazio, Siena, and Tuscany.
