Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 117 min
- Age rating
- PG
- Language
- English
- Country
- United Kingdom, Italy
- Violence
- Moderate
The story
In 1930s fascist Italy, adolescent Luca just lost his mother. His father, a callous businessman, sends him to be taken care of by British expatriate Mary Wallace. Mary and her cultured friends - including artist Arabella, young widow Elsa, and archaeologist Georgie - keep a watchful eye over the boy. But the women's cultivated lives take a dramatic turn when Allied forces declare war on Mussolini.
- hotel
- ambassador
- loss of loved one
- italy
- widow
- world war ii
- female friendship
- benito mussolini
- florence
- italy
- expatriate
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Lily Tomlin — Georgina "Georgie" Rockwell
- Baird Wallace — Luca
- Charlie Lucas — Luca (Child)
- Michael Williams — British Consul
- Paul Chequer — Wilfred Random, aka Miss Lucy
- Massimo Ghini — Paolo
- Paolo Seganti — Vittorio Fanfanni
- Tessa Pritchard — Connie Raynor
- Claudio Spadaro — Benito Mussolini
- Roberto Farnesi — Maurizio
- Chris Larkin — Major Gibson
- Directed
- Franco Zeffirelli
- Written
- John Mortimer
Production
- Rating
- 6.4 / 10 · 161 ratings
- Studio
- Cattleya, Cineritmo, Film and General Productions, Medusa Produzione
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
