Julia and Julia

R

1988

1h 36m

Mystery & Thriller

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5 Reviews

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A travel agent (Kathleen Turner) drives into another dimension and finds her dead husband (Gabriel Byrne), her son and a secret lover (Sting).

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Roger Ebert

Chicago Sun-Times

Julia and Julia tells one of those nightmare stories, like The Trial, where the hero is condemned to live in a world in which absolutely nothing can be counted on.

Rated: 3/4

Jan 1, 2000

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Rene Jordan

El Nuevo Herald (Miami)

In Julia and Julia, the lead star crashes. [Full review in Spanish]

Jun 28, 2022

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Emanuel Levy

EmanuelLevy.Com

Rated: 2/5

Jul 20, 2005

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Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat

Spirituality & Practice

There's enough psychodrama here to have made an engaging film about grief, guilt, and fantasy but director Peter Del Monte drops the ball and gives us a mishmash.

Rated: 1/5

Aug 27, 2004

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Michael Szymanski

Zap2it.com

Rated: 4/5

Mar 21, 2003

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A compelling and haunting existential thriller. Kathleen Turner gives an operatic, committed performance as an American woman who starts to travel uncontrollably between two existences after the tragic death of her Italian husband. Beautifully directed in an early form of Sony HD video by the late Peter Del Monte with an eerie electronic score by Maurice Jarre.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/20/23

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Bizarre film about a woman living in two different realities, one with her husband and child and the other where she is a widow after her husband died in a car crash six years earlier. Hampered a bit by cheap Italian tv production values but good leads.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

02/13/23

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Though the acting is not superb and the flashing to 'reality'/'unreality' kind of confused me, this movie was midly amusing!! Sting was the only person who made this movie sexy and watchable.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/27/23

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I absolutely love this movie or at least I did as a teen. It has been impossible to find and I would love to see it again to see if it is still as good as I remembered it.

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

01/28/23

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Peter Del Monte

Director

Kathleen Turner

Julia

Sting

Daniel

Gabriel Byrne

Paolo

Gabriele Ferzetti

Paolo's Father

Angela Goodwin

Paolo's Mother

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Synopsis

A travel agent (Kathleen Turner) drives into another dimension and finds her dead husband (Gabriel Byrne), her son and a secret lover (Sting).

Director: Peter Del Monte
Screenwriter: Silvia Napolitano, Peter Del Monte
Production Co: RAI Radiotelevisione Italiana
Rating: R
Genre: Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Runtime: 1h 36m
Sound Mix: Surround