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Don't Move is the second feature from actor/director Sergio Castellito (Mostly Martha), who wrote the script with his wife, actress/author Margaret Mazzantini from her best-selling novel. Castellito s... read more read more...tars as Timoteo, a successful surgeon and permissive father whose teenage daughter, Angela (Elena Perino), has just had a life-threatening motorbike accident. Sitting in the hospital, wondering if his daughter will survive, Timoteo thinks back to a fateful day 15 years earlier when his car broke down on a remote country road in the rain and a bedraggled young woman, Italia (Penélope Cruz), invited him into her ramshackle home only to have him force himself upon her. Timoteo then returned home to his lovely wife, Elsa (Claudia Gerini). But unable to get Italia out of his mind, Timoteo returned again and again to her sordid shack. They began to develop genuine feelings for each other. Elsa is reluctant to have children, despite Timoteo's wishes, so when he learns that Italia is pregnant, he has a critical decision to make about how he wants to live his life. Don't Move was shown at New York City's Walter Reade Theater in 2004 as part of a Sergio Castellito retrospective presented by the Film Society of Lincoln Center. ~ Josh Ralske, Rovi

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Unrated, 1 hr. 59 min.

Directed by: Sergio Castellitto

Release Date: December 17, 2004

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DVD Release Date: July 18, 2006

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  • Saxia
    December 14, 2010
    Saxia
    It's the second time I've seen it, and it definitely deserves a spot in my Favorite Movie List! Penelope delivers an intense performance that reminded me very strongly of Geena Rowland's performance in A Woman Under the Influence by Cassavetes.
    Beautiful drama.
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  • bookmunki
    January 3, 2009
    bookmunki
    a haunting and passionate film.
  • Redlats
    January 3, 2009
    Redlats
    An interesting movie. Sometimes a little confusing as Timoteo is remembering the past as his daughter is going through a life and death surgery. We find out he was about to leave his wife for a sultry Italia (Penelope Cruz), but chose to stay with his wife when she became pregn... read moreant.
  • gator681
    April 4, 2005
    gator681
    [font=Century Gothic][color=darkorange]"Upside of Anger" starts out with a funeral. Then, it flashes back three years to when Terry Wolfmeyer(Joan Allen) and Denny Davies(Kevin Costner) bond over alcohol - she's drinking vodka; he's drinking beer.(Was Budweiser a sponsor of this... read more movie?) She's angry over having been left by her husband for his Swedish secretary. And this is most of my problem with the movie - it's natural to be angry and bitter after an event like that but all four of her daughters(each daughter has her irrelevant subplot) regard her with disdain but with no sympathy. I understand the need to move on but you have to be patient with the person in question and that's also in short supply. Oh and Davies is a retired ballplayer who is an on air radio personality who refuses to talk about baseball. (Lots of ex-ballplayers make their living this way. And as long as he pays his taxes I have no problem with this.) The main theme of "Upside of Anger" is that it is wrong to live in the past; but the movie clubs it to death and then drops it out of a very high window. Plus, the movie felt very manipulative.[/color][/font]
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    [font=Century Gothic][color=#ff8c00]Kevin Costner was also playing a member of the Detroit Tigers in "For the Love of the Game." As a Detroit Tigers fan, I have to ask: what did we do to deserve this?[/color][/font]
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    [font=Century Gothic][color=green]"Don't Move" starts out with a shot looking down at the scene of an accident through a rainstorm. Teenaged Angela has been severely injured in the accident. Her father Timoteo(Sergio Castellitto) is a surgeon at that same hospital. His daughter's accident brings him to reminisce about the past - namely, his car breaking down on the edge of town on the hottest day of the summer. He goes to use the phone at the home of Italia(Penelope Cruz) and in a drunken rage, rapes her. He returns to again have rough sex with her and gives her money.[/color][/font]

    [font=Century Gothic][color=#008000]"Don't Move" is an Italian film that has some fairly high ambitions. The main theme concerns the very idea of forgiveness - can Timoteo be forgiven for what he has done? Or in more general, can men be forgiven for all the evil that they do? I don't think so, even if the film has other ideas...plus class plays a very important role in "Don't Move". Italia is a very poor seasonal worker but Timoteo's wife is quite wealthy. It's inferred that Timoteo is from a middle class background as he walks the line between the two. [/color][/font]
  • lesleyanorton
    October 19, 2009
    lesleyanorton
    Penelope Cruz in a standout performance as a trashy mixed-up girl who becomes sexually involved with a repressed married doctor. You know its all going to end badly.
  • mvieaddict
    June 18, 2010
    mvieaddict
    In Don't Move, actor and director Timoteo played by Sergio Castellito was a wealthy surgeon who seemed to have the perfect life. A beautiful wife, a luxurious beach house, but these superficial aspects were not what he wanted out of life. Timoteo's relationship with his wife lack... read moreed of passion and true love. Timoteo's life was changed when he met a woman named Italia , Penelope Cruz and raped her. She was a lower class woman and uneducated. Passion grew into love, and both Timoteo and Italia were happy when they were together.The movie was so realistic, it showed the daily struggles of each character and their desire they wanted to fulfill, such as love, passion and happiness. The ending was not a happy at all, showing Timoteo back with his wife and appreciation his daughter got a chance to live. Italia died,and Timoteo must faced reality and let Italia became nothing more than a memory and a lesson of life.
  • ileo
    January 3, 2009
    ileo
    An intriguing movie. Fascinating story plot. Here's a movie filled with a bit of drama, and love gained and lost.
  • Ghw12158
    September 19, 2011
    Ghw12158
    cruz and actor/director castellitto sweat and smolder the plot resembles the marilyn monroe movie where her neighbor sends the family to the beach 2 avoid the summer heat wave.
  • dahveedgr
    May 29, 2007
    dahveedgr
    Fresh perspective in human's complexity and the relativity of morals. Cruz not always believable though. Nice soundtrack.
  • pikeymut
    April 17, 2007
    pikeymut
    Excellent casting, screenplay, directing and story.
    So well written, that emotion and character empathy overpower all those raunchy sex scenes : o

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Tom Long
June 3, 2005
Tom Long, Detroit News

You don't like Don't Move, you admire it for daring to be a bit more complex, for caring about characters who are hard to care about and for plowing forward through all manner of ugly business.

Terry Lawson
June 3, 2005
Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press

Though beautifully shot and acted, Don't Move still holds limited appeal. Full Review

Michael O'Sullivan
May 27, 2005
Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post

Romantic melodrama of the worst kind. Full Review

Jeff Strickler
May 26, 2005
Jeff Strickler, Minneapolis Star Tribune

The performances are exquisite. Full Review

Eric Harrison
May 20, 2005
Eric Harrison, Houston Chronicle

It has grand flourishes, bold strokes and a soundtrack that swells with emotional Italian and American rock, but it doesn't go over the edge of sentimentality. It's too hard-edged and its acting is to... Full Review

Philip Wuntch
May 19, 2005
Philip Wuntch, Dallas Morning News

Erotic yet lyrical, graphic yet subtle, edgy yet uplifting, disturbing yet reassuring. Full Review

Achy Obejas
May 13, 2005
Achy Obejas, Chicago Tribune

Manipulative in the extreme. Full Review

Ruthe Stein
April 22, 2005
Ruthe Stein, San Francisco Chronicle

It's behind the camera where Castellitto does his best work. He immediately pulls you into the story and when it's over you don't want to move. Full Review

Carrie Rickey
April 21, 2005
Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer

The character of Timoteo is so hypocritically conceived that it's hard to watch the movie to the end.

Susan Walker
April 15, 2005
Susan Walker, Toronto Star

Castellitto must have been aiming for a story of redemption here. All he achieves is melodrama. Full Review

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