The read
A Balasaur Score of 74 out of 100, drawn from IMDb 6.9/10, Rotten Tomatoes 89%, Metacritic 70/100. Scores higher than 87% of the 1,586 2010s crime movies in this catalog.
Synopsis
Pio Amato, a 14 year-old member of a small Romani community in southern Italian town of Gioia Tauro in Calabria, is in a hurry to grow up. Pio follows his older brother Cosimo everywhere and from him he learns how to hustle and how to navigate the streets of his hometown. One night Pio sets out to prove to his brother that he is as good or better than him but, when things go wrong, a series of events will forever change the way he sees the world.
Ratings
IMDb6.9/10
Rotten Tomatoes89%
Metacritic70/100
179 audience votes
Key crew
- Jonas CarpignanoDirector
- Jonas CarpignanoWriter
Cast
- Pio AmatoPio
- Koudous SeihonAyiva
- Damiano AmatoCosimo
- Iolanda AmatoIolanda
- Patrizia AmatoPatrizia
- Rocco AmatoRocco
- Susanna AmatoSusanna
- Francesco Pio AmatoKeko O'Marrochinu
- Mark BenjaminBenjamin
- ChaskuAmerican Boy
- Damiano Nicolas AmatoCocchino
- Pasquale AlampiRaffaele Guerrasio
