Flight of the Innocent

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08/16/2020 Great thriller Great movie See more 09/07/2012 Set in, I think, early 1980s Italy, the movie follows a ten-year-old who watches his family being annihilated and then searches the family of the kidnapped son. Quite interesting, and it is very intriguing to see him move from poverty into the richer parts of Italy, getting exposed to a wealth that is the cause for his family's crime to begin with. See more 05/22/2012 The boy in this movie was really good. Unfortunately, evil overacting adults had to often come on the scene. If it weren't for their overly dramatic presence, this would have been a fine movie. See more 05/21/2012 Feels as you are along the journey with this little boy as he deals with the horrible truth. See more 08/04/2011 I'm loving it! (It's still on now). Seeing all these little details of Italy, like they have that huge desert looking area! When I think Italy I think just some couple of cities, like it's just Venice and Rome. Not some place with things like big open areas like where the chase was in the beginning of the movie. And the relief I felt when the boy got to a civilized area, away from that strange town that just seemed to have one woman gawking from a building, not bothering to help that poor boy running from the killer. Kind of like wow! There's REAL Italy! Not just phony tourist pictures but the REAL THING! That mall he ran into.... Looked just like Strawberry Square in Harrisburg PA! It was flipping me out. Thiink Italy and I think those marble or whatever buildings and market places or something, not a shopping center like HERE! Then, getting over the fun of looking at Italy and into the show, I was getting all full of emotions over it! The sadness and horror that boy seeing his family killed off. ( Just flipping on the show, I thougth it was some Mexican drug family war seeing that desert and people shooting each other like they keep doing now in Mexico!) Envy of the boy for not seeming frightened like sissy me would be if I were in that situation, while I pitied him for being so alone. Impressed by his just going to some city he was never in before maybe, and not being afraid as I would be in any city alone at 10 years old! Love for him comforting that frightened boy in the orphanage or whatever that place was he had to sleep in and stay at for a while. Fear of any shaggy haired man coming around, since they all look alike, and one of them was that bum who killed the rich boy and was after this boy. I had a good old time with the emotions which is what I like in a movie. See more 04/19/2011 No English or American cast here. The very beginning seems all too Italian, even by today's standards, but give it about 10 minutes and it still seems too, too Italian. Plot Synopsis by Hal Erickson: "Originally titled La Corsa Dell'Innocente, this Italian drama focuses on that country's ongoing wave of kidnappings. The early scenes focus on a large, outwardly normal Italian family who happen to make their living by abducting wealthy children and holding them for ransom. When the family is wiped out by a rival gang, only 10-year-old Vito (Manuel Coalo) survives. Any other child would go to the police at this point, but Vito has been raised never to trust the police -- or anyone else, for that matter." Pure gunshot violence in the beginning. Sam Peckinpah would be glad to see this. It seems the modern era Italians like gore, bloodshed and slow motion violence as much as anybody. [Taken from the films of Sergio Leone there is no doubt.] If violence is your game, check this out, at least in the beginning. "The boy Vito is a portrait of beauty and wide-eyed innocence spawned from a violent family of kidnapers and murderers in the South of Italy. When his entire family is murdered by a rival clan of kidnapers, Vito must flee for his own life and in the end attempts to make atonement for some of his family's sins." ....Written by Jeff Hole "If you are looking for a movie that has a great story, well done acting, fantastic direction and a score that will give you goosebumps when you hear it, look no further Flight of the Innocent is a Masterpiece of pure action and excitement. I have just finished viewing this movie for the fifth time and I am still not bored with it." .....by Robert Grima (rgrima72@maltanet.net) Director: Carlo Carlei Writers: Carlo Carlei (screenplay), Carlo Carlei (story) Stars: Manuel Colao, Federico Pacifici Salvatore Borghese Gross revenues! $33,851 MPAA rating for sequences of graphic violence and for some language. running time: 105 min See more Read all reviews

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