Karry Best movie of this year hands down!

Livestonth I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

Dirtylogy It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

Micah Lloyd Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

szokia I have to give this movie a very mixed review. On the one had, the storyline, the script, the score and the acting are fairly reliably horrendous throughout. The storyline is weak, choppy, and drags on miserably. The characters are not very likable (to put it mildly...), and even the most gifted ones (Maggie Smith, Timothy Spall, Chris Cooper and Giancarlo Giannini) are effectively dragged down and their abilities trampled by the leaden script and the absolute lack of talent of some of the other actors. In particular, Bernard Furmann turns in a devastatingly feeble performance that makes you wonder if he's ever darkened the doorstep of an acting school.However, on the other hand, the Italian scenery, that wonderful house, with its beautiful garden and setting, and the cinematography are beyond amazingly gorgeous - all of them. As such, I have now seen this movie at least half a dozen times in the past few months, trying to ignore the fallow storyline and the lame acting, and am quite determined to retire in that region of Italy and, preferably, in that very house.

sunznc Maggie Smith plays a novelist of "Bodice Rippers" told by one character in the film. She lives with her assistants and servants in a huge home in the hills of an Italian village. Charming in every way with beautiful, bucolic grounds, Wisteria choked lattice awnings, beautiful gardens and ceramic tiled rooms. She takes a train to England and there is an explosion. She invites the survivors of the explosion to recuperate at her home. I really like the film due to the scenery and acting. All the actors bring their characters to life here. Maggie Smith's Mrs.Delahunty seems to be a proper English woman with a sense of humor. However, we learn that she drinks and smokes too much basically because she is lonely. Not having a husband or children and coming from a questionable background it is touching to see her caring for everyone from the explosion on the train. Many of the scenes are touching without becoming too sacharine. The film never becomes too sappy and while some subjects are sort of cast aside there is something very heartwarming here. Very good!

Syl Dame Maggie Smith plays a successful British author who travels on train with a group of unsuspecting passengers. She befriends a young girl named Aimee. I love Maggie Smith and her performance was one of her best roles in years. She plays a classy, elegant author who lives very well in Umbria. Tragedy occurs when the train explodes leaving her, Timothy Spall, Chris Cooper, Aimee, and an older gentleman besides herself as survivors. She decides to bring them to her home in Umbria, Italy where she gets to know them. Sadly, Aimee's life is not all what it seems. One of the younger men loses his love and another man has a secret. They all have secrets but the movie is based on William Trevor's novella who is one of Britain's best known authors. Anyway, the filming, the art direction, and the acting is pretty decent considering the script is a bit weak.

michael-nicholson-1 A tale of caring and understanding involving an elderly authoress, an elderly general, a child and a young man brought together by the tragedy of a bomb attack on a train. The authoress takes them to her home whilst the investigation by the local police continues. Each character presents inward battles and longings. The uncle of the young child, an eminent professor and her only remaining relative, arrives to take her back to America. The uncle, well-meaning but childless, is beleaguered by thoughts of doubt and uncertainty - how will he and his wife, also an academic cope with his niece? Estranged from the child's mother, his sister, the child is a stranger to him, thus creating tension and uncertainty. The young man, a German who had been travelling with a new girlfriend, is enigmatic. The elderly general's daughter died in the crash. He and the young man strive to create a garden for their hostess; an obvious metaphor for renewal and hope for the future. Excellent Excllent Excellent.