Everybody's Fine
Everybody's Fine

Everybody's Fine

1990Movie118 minItalian

Matteo Scuro is a retired Sicilian bureaucrat, a widower with five children, all of whom live on the mainland and hold responsible jobs. He decides to surprise each with a visit and finds none as he imagined.

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IMDb7.1/10
Rotten Tomatoes88%
Google Users83%
Director: Giuseppe TornatoreGenres: Comedy-Drama

Plot Summary

An elderly Italian man, Matteo, embarks on a journey across Italy to visit his four grown children, hoping to reconnect with them and discover what has become of their lives. As he travels, he reflects on his past and his hopes for their futures, often through idealized memories and imagined conversations.

Critical Reception

Giuseppe Tornatore's follow-up to the Oscar-winning 'Cinema Paradiso' was met with a generally positive reception from critics, who praised its emotional depth and Marcello Mastroianni's poignant performance. While not as universally acclaimed as its predecessor, it was seen as a touching and melancholic exploration of family, memory, and the bittersweet realities of aging.

What Reviewers Say

  • Praised for its sensitive portrayal of family dynamics and the passage of time.
  • Marcello Mastroianni delivers a masterfully nuanced and heartbreaking performance.
  • The film's blend of humor and pathos resonates deeply, though some found its pacing uneven.

Google audience: Audiences generally appreciated the film's emotional core and Mastroianni's performance, finding it a moving and relatable story about familial relationships and the challenges of connection.

Awards & Accolades

Nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

Fun Fact

The film was originally released in Italy in 1990, but it received a wider international release in 1991, and then again in 1992 in the United States, often being re-titled as 'Stanno tutti bene'.

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