The movie works because so much of what s on screen will resonate with viewers. Jan 11, 2016 the kids are more than all right in everybodys fine in fact, theyre such goodygoodies that they turn this chinese remake of giuseppe tornatores 1990 travelogue drama into parent porn. Everybodys fine 1990 rotten tomatoes movie trailers. Stanno tutti bene is a 1990 italian drama film directed by giuseppe tornatore who cowrote the screenplay with tonino guerra and. A widower who realized his only connection to his family was through his wife sets off on an impromptu road trip to reunite with each of his grown children. Everybodys fine 2009 official trailer 1 robert deniro movie. After seeing everybodys fine, paul mccartney offered to write a song that plays over the closing credits. The movie has its share of gently comedic moments but it is mostly a drama. Dec 04, 2009 robert deniros everybodys fine is not exactly as the adverts portend. Everybodys fine 2009 out of 4 robert deniro plays a widower who grows tired of his four children making excuses for not coming to see him so he disregards his doctors orders and takes a trip to visit all four. Watch everybodys fine online vimeo on demand on vimeo. Everybodys fine is an unmistakably italian movie that reinforces its culture and traditions. The story is excellent taking place in italy about a family man who has all his grown up children and left to seek their own lives in different cities of italy. The film was written and directed by kirk jones waking ned devine.
Everybodys fine follows a widower who embarks on an impromptu road trip to reconnect with each of his grown children only to discover that their lives are far. In this film, you will feel pain, joy, wonder, and a feeling somewhere inbetween as you travel with an elderly and charming sicilian man from sicily to the mainland. Robert deniros everybodys fine is not exactly as the adverts portend. Everything you need to know about everybodys fine movie. In this moving italian drama from filmmaker giuseppe tornatorewho had international success with his previous film cinema paradisoan elderly sicilian. Everybody s fine doesnt strike as forceful an emotional chord as the original. The story is excellent taking place in italy about a family man who has all his grown up children and left. If you like everybody s fine you are looking for sentimental, clever and serious movies about with on the road, family relations, parents and children, family life, homeless, hopes and dysfunctional family themes of drama genre shot in italy or france. Everybodys fine stanno tutti bene film the guardian. There is a great deal of emotion,both for the character s and for us,but its tempered with both a sense of realism and a wider sense of life and what is best for us in life.
Everybodys fine glides along a surface of complete inauthenticity. Dec 04, 2009 written and directed by kirk jones waking ned devine, nanny mcphee, everybodys fine is an adaptation of a 1990 italian film directed by giuseppe tornatore, himself no slouch. It is a remake of giuseppe tornatores italian film everybody s fine. An adaptation of the original 1990 italian film and its 2009 american remake with the exact same title, everybodys fine is a chinese version with high production value, but relatively low emotional impact. A proud bluecollar retiree, frank is alarmed at how evasive and tightlipped his kids are, even though he knows they used to confide in his late wife. Vivid examples include the cold buzz of the answering machine, a baby kept occupied by a tv and eating a burger at italian mcdonalds. Stanno tutti bene everybody s fine 1990 vs 2009 a story about a father who visits his estranged children across the country only to find that his hopes for them havent exactly been fulfilled despite the lies they compose for him at their family meetings.
As with the full version of cinema paradiso, and later on the starmaker and perhaps to a lesser extentmalena, everybody s fine is sentimental but in a tough way. Kathie lee, tom hanks, sean connery, burt reynolds snl duration. In the summer, all four kids bail on a reunion, so, against doctor s orders, frank decides to surprise each with a visit. That may be because the whole movie is like a celluloid mccartney tune. Nov 27, 2009 its a remake of giuseppe tornatores 1990 italian film stanno tutti bene english translation.
So he hits the road to visit them collecting various revelations and learning about himself along the way. No, part of my resistance to everybodys fine is due to the fact that i vividly recall its inspiration. In his latest film, everybodys fine stanno tutti bene at the westside pavilion, he tries to compress modern italys social illusions into one. He decides to surprise each with a visit to know how they live. Everybodys fine vhs, 1992, original italian subtitled. Everybody s fine italian movie tv spot 1991 by rewind me. Jones builds a wider buffer between the characters and the audience. Everybodys fine tells the story of his journey and his discoveries along the way. Everybody s fine were as effective, if meretricious, a film as cinema paradiso, it would make you want to rush home and call dad. But, heres a little warning, it is not your typical light comedy all filled with sunshine and hollywood endings where everybody lives happily ever after. But fathers like matteo, and films like everybodys fine.
In brazil, russia and japan the film was released directtodvd. If you like everybodys fine you are looking for sentimental, clever and serious movies about with on the road, family relations, parents and children, family life, homeless, hopes and dysfunctional family themes of drama genre shot in italy or france. Everybodys fine, an adaptation of a 1990 italian film, inevitably grows schmaltzy towards the end. Characters have no depth and all emotions get ladled on via a syrupy score and.
Everybodys fine drives home a wistful message about family. Matteo scuro is a retired sicilian bureaucrat, a widower with five children, all of whom live on the mainland and hold responsible jobs. But fathers like matteo, and films like everybody s fine. If we have seen a dozen movies in our lifetime, we can feel pretty safe in predicting that each child will reveal, and present, a different kind of problem. A proud bluecollar retiree, frank is alarmed at how evasive and tightlipped his kids are, even though he knows they used. It won the prize of the ecumenical jury giuseppe tornatore and was nominated for golden palm giuseppe tornatore at the 1990 cannes film festival. The film is a veritable travelogue across contemporary italy, as matteo journeys to naples, rome. The film is a veritable travelogue across contemporary italy, as matteo journeys to naples, rome, florence, milan, and turin to search for each of his sons. When frank goodes deniro grown children cancel a family reunion, the recent widower sets off on a cross country journey to reconnect with each of them. Along the way he starts to think about their childhood and where their lives are at now.
Everybodys fine italian movie tv spot 1991 youtube. Frank goode lives by himself in elmira, ny, a recent widower with heart trouble, retired from a factory job, proud of having pushed his adult children toward success. Viewing his circumstances through a lens of past experience, papa scuro sees his world become increasingly westernized. A widower trying to reconnect with his children is a potent topic for a movie. Everybodys fine, a remake of the italian movie stanno tutti bene, is a heartfelt, yet depressing and runofthemill drama about a widowed father who sets out on a surprise road trip across the country to reconnect with his grownup children and discovers their lives are not as happy as they seem to be. Dustin hoffman and richard dreyfuss appear onscreen these days almost exclusively as cutesy old codgers. Nov 04, 2009 everybody s fine glides along a surface of complete inauthenticity. Were no angels 39 movie clip chanting along 1989 hd by movieclips. Everybodys fine 1990 film, an italian film everybodys fine 2009 film, an american remake of the 1990 italian film everybodys fine 2016 film, a chinese film. The movie works because so much of whats on screen will resonate with viewers. Everybodys fine is a quest film that tries to draw together, symbolically, all italy into its singlefamily story, crystallize false national hopes and dreams within the old mans comic. It is a remake of giuseppe tornatores italian film everybodys fine. Cinema paradiso an oscar, golden globe and cannes special jury prize, italian director giuseppe tornatore comes back with everybodys fine, another. Everybodys fine 1990 directed by giuseppe tornatore.
Id expected a movie about a doddering, lonely old widower whose family stood him up for a holiday trip, so he decided to travel the country and surprise his children, learn they werent the people he was led to believe, and come to terms with their lives while realizing something important about himself. Written and directed by kirk jones waking ned devine, nanny mcphee, everybodys fine is an adaptation of a 1990 italian film directed by giuseppe tornatore, himself no slouch. An emotionally engaging and touching movie, everybodys fine combines. Everybodys fine 2009 rotten tomatoes movie trailers. Zhang guoli stars as guan zhiguo, a father of four, in the same role that robert deniro delivered in the american edition. As with the full version of cinema paradiso, and later on the starmaker and perhaps to a lesser extentmalena,everybodys fine is sentimental but in a tough way.
Franks travelling light but carrying excess baggage uk quad. He decides to surprise each with a visit and finds none as he imagined. Suffice it to say that i thoroughly enjoyed this movie. But jones, a british director best known as the writerdirector of the 1998. This englishsubtitled italian film is the perfect film to entertain the whole family, except for perhaps younger children. Everybody s fine 2009 out of 4 robert deniro plays a widower who grows tired of his four children making excuses for not coming to see him so he disregards his doctors orders and takes a trip to visit all four. Or at least it was when jack nicholson had a go at it in alexander paynes about schmidt. Everybodys fine official trailer hd frank just lost his wife, and without their mother by his side, franks grown children arent compelled to visit for the holidays. Along the way he starts to think about their childhood and.
Marcello mastroianni, michele morgan, valeria cavalli, marino cenna, norma martelli, roberto nobile, salvatore cascio, matteo lo. Everybodys fine doesnt strike as forceful an emotional chord as the original. Z hang mengs everybodys fine is somehow even duller than the american remake of giuseppe tornatores original italian film. Everybodys fine were as effective, if meretricious, a film as cinema paradiso, it would make you want to rush home and call dad. Great memorable quotes and script exchanges from the everybodys fine movie on. Everybodys fine 1990 film, an italian film everybodys fine 2009 film, an american remake of the 1990 italian film everybodys fine 2016 film, a chinese film genre. Stanno tutti bene everybodys fine ennio morricone youtube. In the summer, all four kids bail on a reunion, so, against doctors. There is a great deal of emotion,both for the characters and for us,but its tempered with both a sense of realism and a wider sense of life and what is best for us in life. The kids are more than all right in everybodys fine in fact, theyre such goodygoodies that they turn this chinese remake of giuseppe tornatores 1990 travelogue drama into parent porn. And, of course, this being a holiday film release, the goode clan eventually reunites back. Robert deniro leads an acclaimed allstar cast drew barrymore, kate beckinsale and sam rockwell in everybodys fine, the heartwarming film that will move you to laughter and tears.
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