3 Movies Starring Maria Grazia Cucinotta

Il Postino: The Postman

Il Postino: The Postman

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1996-03-22

Languages:

Italian, Spanish

Countries:

Italy, France, Belgium

Runtime:

108 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

7.8 (24451 Reviews)

Director:

Michael Radford

Cast:

Writer:

Antonio Skèrmeta (novel)

Furio Scarpelli (story)

Giacomo Scarpelli (story)

Anna Pavignano (screenplay)

Michael Radford (screenplay)

Furio Scarpelli (screenplay)

Giacomo Scarpelli (screenplay)

Massimo Troisi (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Pablo Neruda, the famous Chilean poet, is exiled to a small island for political reasons. On the island, the unemployed son of a poor fisherman is hired as an extra postman due to the huge increase in mail that this causes. Il Postino is to hand-deliver the celebrity's mail to him. Though poorly educated, the postman learns to love poetry and eventually befriends Neruda. Struggling to grow and express himself more fully, he suddenly falls in love and needs Neruda's help and guidance more than ever.

A Brooklyn State of Mind

A Brooklyn State of Mind

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1998-02-01

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

89 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

5.6 (287 Reviews)

Director:

Frank Rainone

Cast:

Writer:

Frank Rainone

Frederick Stroppel

Fullplot:

Al Stanco has lived all of his life in Brooklyn and does some work for the local crime lord, Danny Parente. New to the neighbourhood is Gabriela, a filmmaker shooting a documentary on the real Brooklyn. Al and Gabriela become friendly but the relationship is strained when he discovers her true goal is to expose Parente's criminal activities. When Al sees the evidence Gabriela has uncovered, which implicates Parente in the death of many locals (including Al's own father), he seeks revenge in a dangerous confrontation with his boss.

Picking Up the Pieces

Picking Up the Pieces

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2000-08-30

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

95 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

4.7 (2946 Reviews)

Director:

Alfonso Arau

Fullplot:

Woody Allen plays Tex, a kosher butcher. Sharon Stone plays his unfaithful wife Candy. Tex catches Candy in the act and in a fit of rage he kills her. To conceal his crime he cuts up her body and buries it in the desert in New Mexico. However, when her hand surfaces, a blind woman trips over it and it restores her sight. The hand is then considered to be the "hand of the Virgin." Despite the church's fallen priest objecting, the ambitious mayor of the town creates an international three-ring circus of miracle-seekers, TV crews, and born-again local prostitutes all interested in the hand. All of this goes on while Tex is desperately trying to recover the hand before the sheriff finds it and uses it as evidence against him.

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