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      Between Strangers

      R Released Oct 4, 2002 1 hr. 35 min. Drama List
      25% 8 Reviews Tomatometer 46% 250+ Ratings Audience Score A housewife (Sophia Loren), a famous cellist (Deborah Kara Unger) and a photojournalist (Mira Sorvino) wrestle with painful personal demons. Read More Read Less

      Audience Reviews

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      Audience Member This is one of the most amazing movies I've ever seen! Written and directed by Edoardo Ponti, whose mother, the great Sophia Loren, is one of the lead characters (Loren's character is married to a real a-hole). The stories aren't quite intertwined (until the end) but it all works smoothly and is very moving. And French actor Gerard Depardieu has a small role of a character who is quite helpful to Loren's. Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 02/04/23 Full Review Audience Member A bit slow, but it was worth a watch. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/17/23 Full Review Audience Member I don't think I have ever seen such terrible acting from such a star-studded cast! Compounded by a plot as stale as dry toast, this film must be where good acting went and croaked. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 02/25/23 Full Review Audience Member The excellent interpretations enrich the film. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/07/23 Full Review Audience Member A must-see movie: very well directed, telling a lot of troubling messages about being a woman, the feeling of guilt in its many forms, the meaning of our dreams and what happens if we ignore fulfilling them and follow our true calling in life...Great performances by great actors: Sophia Loren, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Mira Sorvino and Deborah Kara Unger..... Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 01/19/23 Full Review Audience Member Quite an intersting ensemble Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/22/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Critics Reviews

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      Sid Adilman Toronto Star Except for heartfelt performances by Sophia Loren and Pete Postlethwaite as her wheelchair-bound husband, Between Strangers is an awful cheat. Rated: 1/5 Oct 4, 2002 Full Review Liam Lacey Globe and Mail Slick little perfumed soap opera. Rated: 2/4 Oct 4, 2002 Full Review Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com Rated: 2/5 Jul 23, 2005 Full Review Brian Gibson Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Alberta) As soft-lit and saccharine as a Sugar Jones video, it tries to pass off sentiment as emotion and artifice as art. Dec 1, 2003 Full Review Christopher Null Filmcritic.com mildly satisfying Rated: 3.5/5 Nov 22, 2003 Full Review Mark R. Leeper rec.arts.movies.reviews Rated: 4/10 Dec 5, 2002 Full Review Read all reviews

      Movie Info

      Synopsis A housewife (Sophia Loren), a famous cellist (Deborah Kara Unger) and a photojournalist (Mira Sorvino) wrestle with painful personal demons.
      Director
      Edoardo Ponti
      Executive Producer
      Wladyslaw Bartoszewics, Mario Cotone, Simone De Rita, Edoardo Ponti
      Screenwriter
      Edoardo Ponti
      Production Co
      Super Ecran, Harold Greenberg Fund, Capri Films, Astral Films, First Look International, The Movie Network (TMN)
      Rating
      R
      Genre
      Drama
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Theaters)
      Oct 4, 2002, Original
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Jan 23, 2019