Tea With Mussolini (1999)
Average Rating: 6.3/10
Reviews Counted: 34
Fresh: 22 | Rotten: 12
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Average Rating: 5.7/10
Critic Reviews: 7
Fresh: 3 | Rotten: 4
No consensus yet.
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Average Rating: 3.5/5
User Ratings: 7,444
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Based in part on his autobiography, director Franco Zeffirelli's Tea With Mussolini is a drama with comic accents about a group of British and American travelers on an indefinite visit to Italy in 1935, when, as one character puts it, "Mussolini was just a man who made the trains run on time." Luca (played by Charlie Lucas) is a boy living in Florence whose family situation is precarious at best; his mother has died and his father has little time for him. Fortunately, he's a welcome guest with
May 14, 1999 Wide
Nov 16, 1999
MGM/UA
Cast
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Cher
Elsa -
Judi Dench
Arabella -
Joan Plowright
Mary -
Maggie Smith
Hester -
Lily Tomlin
Georgie -
Baird Wallace
Luca (teenager) -
Charlie Lucas
Luca (child) -
Massimo Ghini
Paolo -
Paolo Seganti
Vittorio -
Paul Checquer
Wilfred -
Tessa Pritchard
Connie -
Mino Bellei
Cesare -
Claudio Spadaro
Mussolini -
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All Critics (61) | Top Critics (17) | Fresh (22) | Rotten (12) | DVD (3)
A collection of isolated, anecdotal events that are as warmly amusing as they are lacking in narrative drive.
The banter, jealousy and cattiness among these charming stereotypes of the Anglo-American lifestyle sweepstakes makes much of this engaging film a winner.
Art and suffocating tastefulness are taken as such inherent goods in [this film] that they utterly overwhelm the real people whom the film pretends to showcase.
This satisfying film reveals the ways in which a village can successfully raise a child.
Cher shines with the spirit of 'Life is Beautiful.'
Cher, in a role ideally suited to her natural flamboyance, sparkles.
If you want some light and charming entertainment and are attuned to Zeffirelli's rather conventional approach to the medium, then you can have a very good time.
A ridiculous movie...
The latest in the English-Speaking People Who Discover Themselves in Tuscany genre
A soothingly old-fashioned, deeply sentimental memory piece.
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- Tee mit Mussolini (DE)
