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Stealing Beauty (1996)

R  |   |  Drama, Romance  |  14 June 1996 (USA)
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After her mother commits suicide, nineteen year old Lucy Harmon travels to Italy to have her picture painted. However, she has other reasons for wanting to go. She wants to renew her ... See full summary »

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After her mother commits suicide, nineteen year old Lucy Harmon travels to Italy to have her picture painted. However, she has other reasons for wanting to go. She wants to renew her acquaintance with Nicolo Donati, a young boy with whom she fell in love on her last visit four years ago. She also is trying tosolve the riddle left in a diary written by her dead mother, Sara. Written by Kale Whorton <nikko11@mind.net>

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The most beautiful place to be is in love.

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Drama | Romance

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Rated R for strong sexuality, nudity, some drug use and language | See all certifications »

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14 June 1996 (USA)  »

Also Known As:

Dancing by Myself  »

Box Office

Budget:

$10,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

$103,028 (USA) (14 June 1996)

Gross:

£600,443 (UK) (13 September 1996)
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Jeremy Irons and Sinéad Cusack are a real life couple and have been married since 1978. See more »

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When Lucy enters the Tuscan Villa for the first time you see a swallow (Hirundo rustica) flying combined with the screeching call of the swift (Apus apus). See more »

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Miranda: I decided I had to get rid of it one summer before school. I ended up doing it with the same guy my best friend did it with. He was the local... deflowerer...
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2 Wicky
Performed by Hoover
Written by Alex Callier
Composed by Raymond Geerts / Alex Callier
Courtesy of EMI Music Publishing Belgium NV. c/o EMI April Music Inc. (ASCAP)
Including sample of "WALK ON BY"
Performed by Isaac Hayes
Written by Burt Bacharach, Hal David
Courtesy of New Valley Music and Casa David Music (ASCAP)
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America is not ready
1 July 1999 | by (Norman) – See all my reviews

When this filmed first came on the scene, there was a lot of critics that downed the intensity of this film... of course their favorite words were pseudoartistic crap. America is not ready for this film. Look at what we embrace in our films: blood, sex, nudity, shock value. America is not ready for a film that sees the attraction towards a 19 year-old as a natural thing. American normalcy sees this as wrong, deceitful, and impure. Bertolucci did not make a film, he reflected humanity through a camera. This film dives into our own psyche seeking the desires to be pure and innocent. Only America would see this as a piece of psycho sexual fantasy into our own pedophiliac desires. Watch it people, there's a substance that you're not used to seeing in everyday flicks.


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