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Cinema Paradiso

[1988, Movie]

Cinema Paradiso: Review

No, they don't make movies like they used to, and this Oscar-winning Italian-French co-production spends the better part of three hours proving it. A successful movie director returns to his rural Sicilian village after 30 years to attend the funeral of a former mentor who advised him to forsake his humble origins and journey to Rome to make a life for himself. Read the complete review for Cinema Paradiso

Cinema Paradiso: Cast & Details

Year: 1988
Rated NR

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Jacques Perrin: Toto as an Adult
Salvatore Cascio: Toto as a Child
Marco Leonardi: Toto as a Teenager
Philippe Noiret: Alfredo
Nino Terzo: Peppino's Father
Brigitte Fossey: Elena

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Cinema Paradiso: TV Guide News

Ask FlickChick: Readers' Movie Questions Answered! | Ask FlickChick | 1/3/2008
A movie about growing up at the movies, she-demons vs. holy man, a time-travel comedy and more!Question: I love reading your weekly column and know you'll be able to help me. I can't remember the name of an Italian movie I saw in the late 1980s or early '90s. It's about a boy growing up in a small village; he spends a lot of time at the cinema and the man who runs it becomes a father figure to him. The church requires that the man cut out any kissing scenes before the movies are shown and the boy is always trying to look at the deleted scenes, which the man keeps in a box. Lots of stuff I don't remember happens in the middle, but the boy grows up and I think he becomes a filmmaker. When the old man dies, the boy — now a man — returns to the village and finds that the man spliced together all the kissing scenes to create a "movie" and left it for him. I remember it being a very moving story and would like to share it with my friends, but I don't remember the title and I... read more
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