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A Balasaur Score of 83 out of 100, drawn from IMDb 7.8/10, Rotten Tomatoes 95%. Critics rate it 17 points higher than audiences do. Scores higher than 88% of the 790 1960s drama movies in this catalog.
Synopsis
After years spent working as a prostitute in her Italian village, middle-aged Mamma Roma has saved enough money to buy herself a fruit stand so that she can have a respectable middle-class life and reestablish contact with the 16-year-old son she abandoned when he was an infant. But her former pimp threatens to expose her sordid past, and her troubled son seems destined to fall into a life of crime and violence.
Ratings
IMDb7.8/10
Rotten Tomatoes95%
Critics rate it 17 points higher than audiences do.
445 audience votes
Key crew
- Pier Paolo PasoliniDirector
- Pier Paolo PasoliniScreenplay
- Carlo RustichelliOriginal Music Composer
- Antonio VivaldiOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Anna MagnaniMamma Roma
- Ettore GarofoloEttore
- Franco CittiCarmine
- Silvana CorsiniBruna
- Luisa LoianoBiancofiore
- Paolo VolponiPriest
- Luciano GoniniZacaria
- Vittorio La PagliaIl Signor Pellissier
- Piero MorgiaPiero
- Franco CeccarelliCarletto
- Marcello SorrentinoTonino
- Sandro MeschinoPasquale
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Themes
friendshipprostituterome, italyparent child relationshippimpthiefweddingchurchsingle motherlgbticonographyneorealism
The Best Movies of 1962
Mamma Roma is #14 of 59
