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Gabriele Muccino
Highest Rated: 74% The First Beautiful Thing (2010)
Lowest Rated: 5% Playing for Keeps (2012)
Birthday: May 20, 1967
Birthplace: Rome, Italy
For Italian director Gabriele Muccino, working in Europe was always easier than working in America. A simple phone call to his favorite actress was all that had been required to get a film made in the Old World. Across the pond, however, Muccino had to wade through a sea of agents, managers and executives before even getting a meeting with a favored actor. This went on to explain well why Muccino made four films in six years in Italy, but virtually none in America, despite signing a two-picture deal with Miramax following the success of his breakthrough film, "The Last Kiss" (2001) - a humorous look at two twenty-something men coming to grips with accepting the responsibility of adulthood. The film managed to crack the ever-elusive American market, but any advantage he gained was crushed under the weight of a bureaucratic Hollywood system that once embraced - aesthetically, at least - his Italian predecessors. Though never content, Muccino retained his sanity - and a large, eager audience - by continuing to work in his home country.
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Gabriele Muccino
Filmography
Movies
Credit | |||||
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Best Years |
Director, Screenwriter |
- | 2020 |
No Score Yet |
|
There Is No Place Like Home |
Director, Screenwriter |
- | 2018 |
No Score Yet |
|
L'estate addosso |
Director, Writer |
- | 2016 |
27% |
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Fathers and Daughters | Director | - | 2015 |
5% |
|
Playing for Keeps | Director | $13.1M | 2012 |
74% |
|
The First Beautiful Thing | Producer | - | 2010 |
No Score Yet |
|
Kiss Me Again |
Director, Screenwriter |
- | 2010 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Baciami ancora | Director | - | 2010 |
27% |
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Seven Pounds | Director | $70.0M | 2008 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | 4 padri single | Producer | - | 2008 |
67% |
|
The Pursuit of Happyness | Director | $162.6M | 2006 |
46% |
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The Last Kiss | Executive Producer | $11.6M | 2006 |
55% |
|
Remember Me, My Love |
Director, Writer |
$15.4K | 2003 |
73% |
|
The Last Kiss |
Director, Writer, Writer |
$1.0M | 2001 |
No Score Yet |
|
But Forever in My Mind |
Director, Writer, Writer |
- | 1999 |
TV
Credit | ||||
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25% | No Score Yet | Viva Laughlin | Director | 2007 |