In the summer, all four kids bail on a reunion, so, against doctors orders, frank decides to surprise each with a visit. The screenplay focuses on the relationship between a blue collar worker and a veterinarian. Just go to ebay and search for everybody s fine, 1990. 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. Everybodys fine 1990 rotten tomatoes movie trailers. The movie works because so much of whats on screen will resonate with viewers. Its a remake of giuseppe tornatores 1990 italian film stanno tutti bene english translation. He decides to surprise each with a visit to know how they live.
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. This is not your typical holiday movie nor at the end of the week movie. Vivid examples include the cold buzz of the answering machine, a baby kept occupied by a tv and eating a burger at italian mcdonalds. Theres something shallow in parts of everybodys fine timesrated mature, for partial nuditybut its a movie of feeling, social engagement and visual beauty.
Nov 27, 2009 its a remake of giuseppe tornatores 1990 italian film stanno tutti bene english translation. Everybodys fine original motion picture soundtrack by. In brazil, russia and japan the film was released directtodvd. Everybodys fine vhs, 1992, original italian subtitled. Stanno tutti bene everybodys fine ennio morricone youtube. Everybodys fine 2016 stream and watch online moviefone. Actually, its a loose remake of the 1990 italian movie of the same title, and just like it, its set in the summertime. Nov 04, 2009 everybody s fine glides along a surface of complete inauthenticity. Everybodys fine stanno tutti bene film the guardian. It is a remake of giuseppe tornatore s italian film everybody s fine. After seeing everybodys fine, paul mccartney offered to write a song that plays over the closing credits. Everybody wants to be italian is a 2007 american romantic comedy film written and directed by jason todd ipson. Sometimes, to find the truth out may not be the best way.
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. In can be beyond aggravating when you have the name of a movie on the tip of your tongue but just cant seem to get it out. He decides to surprise each with a visit and finds none as he imagined. In a hammy movie that practically demands a hammy lead performance, he is relatively restrained. 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. 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. It is a remake of giuseppe tornatore s italian film everybodys fine. In the end the punch line, which is the final scenes of the movie, were not sufficient to justify all that had been played out over the course of the production. Mastroianni is effortlessly relaxed and embracing, the life source in a body.
Also sign me up for fanmail to get updates on all things movies. So you can buy two for the price of one from panjafe. Now, theres a site that can take the things you do remember about. When all of them cancel their visits at the last minute, frank, against the advice of his doctor, sets out on a road trip to reconnect with his offspring. Jones builds a wider buffer between the characters and the audience. Everybodys fine drives home a wistful message about family.
Everybodys fine italian movie tv spot 1991 youtube. Zhang guoli stars as guan zhiguo, a father of four, in the same role that robert deniro delivered in the american. 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. If you would ask me i would have to say in all honesty, everybody s fine. Everybodys fine is an unmistakably italian movie that reinforces its culture and traditions. The comedy is broader, the dramatic crises have been. It won the prize of the ecumenical jury giuseppe tornatore and was nominated for golden palm giuseppe tornatore at the 1990 cannes film festival. Cinema paradiso an oscar, golden globe and cannes special jury prize, italian director giuseppe tornatore comes back with everybodys fine, another. Stanno tutti bene is a 1990 italian drama film directed by giuseppe tornatore who cowrote the screenplay with tonino guerra and. Everybodys fine is a rather belated englishlanguage remake of director giuseppe tornatores classic 1990 italian film stanno tutti bene, which was scored by ennio morricone. Described by jones as a film about a family, based in reality and observation, everybodys fine strikes a harmonious balance between serious emotion and humor.
The movie has its share of gently comedic moments but it is mostly a drama. No, part of my resistance to everybodys fine is due to the fact that i vividly recall its inspiration. Everybodys fine stanno tutti bene 1990, all region, ntsc, import. It can be said of giuseppe tornatores everybodys fine stanno tutti. Now, when hes alone, preparing the house for the upcoming holidays, all of his children cancel the holiday meeting with no explanation. The panjafe one comes out of south korea, but it is the identical disc, right down to disc and picture quality, art work, and the combo of korean and english on the box. And once again we have actors overdoing the stereotype of an italian american accent by using a new york a movie that takes place in boston. After seeing everybody s fine, paul mccartney offered to write a song that plays over the closing credits. But jones, a british director best known as the writerdirector of the 1998. Dec 08, 2009 so, just in case it really is that important to you to see a christmas movie, i guess i should warn you that everybodys fine is not, in fact, a christmas movie. Eight months after the death of his wife, frank goode looks forward to a reunion with his four adult children. Viewing his circumstances through a lens of past experience, papa scuro sees his world become increasingly westernized. Everybody s fine italian movie tv spot 1991 by rewind me. Released 2016, everybodys fine stars he chen, shawn dou, chen yao, guoli zhang the movie has a runtime of about 1 hr 45 min, and received a score of out of 100 on metacritic, which collated.
Suffice it to say that i thoroughly enjoyed this movie. With marcello mastroianni, michele morgan, valeria cavalli, marino cenna. Everybody s fine kirk jones who also directed nanny mcphee and waking ned divine directs this italian remake from the 90s called stanno tutti bene. Dec 04, 2009 everybodys fine heralds the entrance of mr. 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. Enter your location to see which movie theaters are playing everybody wants to be italian near you. Enter your location to see which movie theaters are playing everybodys fine 2009 near you. Franks travelling light but carrying excess baggage uk quad. Everything about this movie was bad, the conversations between the italian and italian american characters being the very worst of it. 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. Everybodys fine is a comic and bittersweet drama following a widower who embarks on an impromptu road trip to reconnect with each of his grownup.
Everybodys fine, a remake of an italian movie, is a heartfelt, yet depressing and runofthemill, drama. Everybodys fine of all the weeks hd kate beckinsale. English, korean, or none ntsc all regions english and korean text on front and back of artwork matteo scuro is a retired sicilian bureaucrat responsible mainly for the writing of birth certificates and a. Watch everybodys fine online vimeo on demand on vimeo. Joness efforts to retool the italian original for an american audience prove disappointing. Matteo scuro is a retired sicilian bureaucrat, a widower with five children, all of whom live on the mainland and hold responsible jobs. Everything about this movie was bad, the conversations between the italian and italianamerican characters being the very worst of it. 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. The story revolves around a fatherde niro, whos wife has passed away, and his desire to reunite his four children for the holidays. In his latest film, everybodys fine stanno tutti bene at the westside pavilion, he tries to compress modern italys social illusions into one. While the ending suggested by the movies title, everybodys fine, may convey the final destination of the story line, i would say that would not be my feeling about this movie overall. A proud bluecollar retiree, frank is alarmed at how evasive and tightlipped his kids are, even though he knows they used. He also is given credit for adapting the original screenplay to suit this american version better.
I dislike giuseppe tornatores everybodys fine, which opens today at the charles, even more than his. So he hits the road to visit them collecting various revelations and learning about himself along the way. Dec 04, 2009 robert deniros everybodys fine is not exactly as the adverts portend. Everybodys fine 2009 rotten tomatoes movie trailers.
And once again we have actors overdoing the stereotype of an italianamerican accent by using a new york a movie that takes place in boston. Facing ones parents, the sentence mostly said from us is everybodys fine. The marketing for everybody s fine would have you believe that the film is a heartfelt dramedy about a widowed father coming to terms with the fact that his scattered children have, in a sense, outgrown him. Everybody s fine doesnt strike as forceful an emotional chord as the original. That may be because the whole movie is like a celluloid mccartney tune. This englishsubtitled italian film is the perfect film to entertain the whole family, except for perhaps younger children.
Everybodys fine is based on a 1990 giuseppe tornatore film named stanno tutti bene, which starred marcello mastroianni as a man in the same situation. 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. 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. Zhang guoli stars as guan zhiguo, a father of four, in the same role that robert deniro delivered in the american edition. Everybodys fine 412 movie clip a spaghetti dinner with dad 2009 hd duration. The grown up children dont want their older parents to worry about them, and hide their problems and sadness. The film premiered at the boston film festival on september 18, 2007 and released theatrically in the united states on september 5, 2008. Matteo scuro is a retired sicilian bureaucrat responsible mainly for the writing of birth certificates and a father of five children, all of whom live on the mainland and hold responsible jobs. In this moving italian drama from filmmaker giuseppe tornatorewho had international success with his previous film cinema paradisoan elderly sicilian. 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. Following the international success of cinema paradiso an oscar, golden globe and cannes special jury prize, italian director giuseppe tornatore comes back with everybodys fine, another. An emotionally engaging and touching movie, everybodys fine combines. 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. The film is a veritable travelogue across contemporary italy, as matteo journeys to naples, rome.
Mastroianni, that icon of the italian cinema, is less bad than dim. It can be said of giuseppe tornatores everybodys fine stanno tutti bene that its the film that everybody who disliked his sentimental cinema paradiso was afraid he could make if he. Wishful thinking 1997 official trailer 1 drew barrymore movie. Everybodys fine 2009 stream and watch online moviefone.
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