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My Name Is Tanino

2003 · 109 min

A breezy, sunlit picaresque that charms with its naive hero's misadventures and gentle culture-clash comedy.

Directed by
Paolo Virzì
Genres
Comedy
Starring
Corrado Fortuna, Rachel McAdams, Jessica De Marco
Overview
During a sun-soaked Sicilian summer, aimless filmmaking undergrad and back-seat radical Tanino has a fling with Sally, a dreamy American tourist from an upper background. When summer ends, Sally flies back home, without ever reaching out. Clueless, a smitten Tanino decides to pay her a surprise visit under the pretense of returning a camera she left behind. But when he gets there, he quickly realizes the reality of America—and his relationship with Sally's—is far from the idealized version his small-town boy imagination conjured.

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Directed by
Paolo Virzì
Genres
Comedy
Starring
Corrado Fortuna, Rachel McAdams, Jessica De Marco
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Tone
  • lightstrength 2 of 3
  • whimsicalstrength 2 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 1 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
Pacing
brisk, 3 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • coming-of-age
  • identity
  • love
  • family
  • class
Places
  • small town
  • big city
  • road trip
Era
contemporary
Audience
teen
Form
  • nonlinear
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action3
Horror0
Humour7
Realism6
Romance5
Tension3
Darkness2
Complexity3
Emotional weight4

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Details

Genres
comedy
Directed by
Paolo Virzì
Written by
Paolo Virzì, Francesco Piccolo, Francesco Bruni
Starring
Corrado Fortuna, Rachel McAdams, Jessica De Marco, Frank Crudele, Barry Flatman, Lori Hallier, Don Francks, Mary Long
Music
Carlo Virzì
Cinematography
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Runtime
109 min
Country
Italy, Canada
Languages
Italian, English

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