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 enlarge | Director: Richard Loncraine
Actors: Maggie Smith, Ronnie Barker, Chris Cooper, Benno Fuermann, Giancarlo Giannini
Studio: Hbo Home Video
Category: DVD
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Rating:  50 reviews
Sales Rank: 15559
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Dvd-video, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Original Language), German (Original Language), Italian (Original Language), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: Unrated
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 103 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: D92032D
ISBN: 0783123892
UPC: 026359203220
EAN: 9780783123899
ASIN: B0000CE684
Theatrical Release Date: May 25, 2003
Release Date: November 25, 2003
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Good Movie - Interesting Cast May 2, 2008
SEB Thomas (In the middle of the middle - Iowa)
Delightful and yet sometimes heart wrenching story. Beautiful oasis in Italy reminded me of "Enchanted April" and "A Room with a View" other great British based Italy movies.
 WORTH THE PRICE! HEALING IS THE THEME! April 9, 2008
Andrew J. DiLiddo Jr. (Vermont, USA)
Maggie Smith is wonderful in this film. Her character is well developed. The theme of "HEALING" and the "TIME" that HEALING can take after a TRAUMA is a WELL DEVELOPED THEME.
What better place to heal than this picturesque landscape in Italy!
I wanted to go there!
Maggie's character, Emily, drinks quite a bit and does push drinks on the character played by Chris Cooper, the little girl's uncle. This bothered me because it seemed so overdone. But then, it reminded me of someone, a personal friend who used to do the same thing. Emily's purpose in her life is to heal, not only the victims of the train explosion - but, at the same time, to heal herself. There are a few black and white flashbacks that are easy to miss, showing abusive sex, presumeably, Emily being abused - its not explicit, but implicit. Soooo, everyone has a kind of post traumatic stress syndrome - The resolution of some loose ends related to the bomber of the train, was not very explicit, but, that's a minor critique.
 We All Want to Be Needed January 26, 2008
L. A. Vitale
Seems to be the main motto of the lead character of the leading character, Mrs. Delahunty (played by Maggie Sweet), even if she doesn't say it out.
Mrs. Delahunty is an elderly, romance novelist & alcoholic with a mysterious past whom owns a home in the Italian countryside of Umbria. She wears her heart on her sleeve & goes out of her way to feel needed and wanted by people around her... Mrs. Delahunty has a kind, generous heart & simply wants the best for those she meets.
We learn this all about Mrs. Delahunty as the story unfolds as Mrs. Delahunty & others she meets on the train are all aboard the train when a bomb causes major damage to the train and injury to those aboard. Mrs. Delahunty invites those that were sharing the train cabin she was in to recuperate at her home in Umbria. They take up her offer and all become friends. The youngest member of the group, a girl, lost her parents in the train bombing and an Uncle she's never met comes from the US to take her home. It doesn't appear that the Uncle isn't all that interested in taking care of her.... So, Mrs. Delahunty sets about trying to persuade the Uncle to come to another alternative.... The two do not see eye to eye on many levels, so we are left to see what will happen to the girl.... Plus the other guests, as we learn they all have their own personal lives to attend to as well.
"My House In Umbria" is a bit slow moving and a bit predictable.... otherwise a good film with a good message.
Excellent Movie. November 2, 2007
Joanne Locricchio
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Loved everything about it, the acting, the storyline and the scenery makes you want to visit Umbria. Great movie.
Writer with grappa seeks lover August 16, 2007
Esmerelda Jones (Western Australia)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Emily Delahunty has acquired four guests in her cosy Italian country mansion. She's revelling in the intimacy, eagerly dropping beads about her adventurous past; although now, it seems, she has settled here in the groves of Umbria as an author of romance paperbacks with titles such as "Two on a Sunbeam."
When she's splitting peas in the solid, vintage kitchen with Werner she is sincere and caring. With Thomas Riversmith, a university professor who studies the red carpenter ant, Emily is begging for jungle romance. Confiding unabashedly, she holds back nothing from her twirly past. The disgusted Tom shrinks from her almost body to body conversations and regards her love books as trash for the desperate. While she fancies that they might be courting an affair, Tom fears her boldness, looking forward to returning to America with his niece Aimee. Wickedly she smiles: "A few weeks with the right woman and all his little irritations would soon disappear."
"What Mrs. Emily Delahunty requires is a faucet of passion. Sloshing her grappa around the old world Umbrian mansion she speaks of her memories--an obliterated childhood; of numerous, disappointing men and a vanished youth in the Cafe Rose where she was obliged to entertain sweaty gentlemen.
Tom will return to America with Aimee in the morning. Needing to be a mother to the child of sunlight, Emily is in a restless fever. With two glasses and a bottle of grappa, she wakes him, her satin dressing gown flowing open. Again he is annoyed with her. Her sad face beseeches him: "It's unkind to call me Mrs. Delahunty, Tom. It's not even my real name." Though decidedly drunk, Emily exposes his guilt with wisdom then splashes grappa over his pajamas.
The writer of "bodice-rippers" triumphs and the novel of her Umbrian life ends with:
"In the garden, the delphiniums were in flower. Through scented twilight the girl in the white dress walked with a step as light as a morning cobweb. That evening, she hadn't a care in the world."
Relax and sip lemonade with My House in Umbria. You'll be singing "Rosa's Song" along with the jaunty Italian maid as she irons in the fragrant yard.
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