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65% Critic Match
Caterina in the Big City
“Sometimes you just want to fit in... or not.”
6.5 / 10• 2003• 1h 45m•NR• Italian
ComedyDrama
Storyline
When her social-climbing father is relocated from a one-horse town to his native Rome, 12-year-old Caterina enrolls in his old school, finding herself adrift in an environment where eighth-graders form friendships based on social class and their parents' political affiliations.
Cast & Crew
Sergio Castellitto
Giancarlo Iacovoni
Lead
Margherita Buy
Agata Iacovoni
Alice Teghil
Caterina Iacovoni
Federica Sbrenna
Daniela Germano
MM
Margherita Mazzola
Martina
CI
Carolina Iaquaniello
Margherita Rossi Chaillet
MT
Martina Tasquetta
Alessia
Galatea Ranzi
Livia, Margherita's mother
What People Are Saying
4.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Paolo Virzì's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
3.0
“Every frame feels alive. Caterina in the Big City is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
