Movies: City country contrast
- 2002
Mr. Deeds (2002)
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When Longfellow Deeds, a small-town pizzeria owner and poet, inherits $40 billion from his deceased uncle, he quickly begins rolling in a different kind of dough. Moving to the big city, Deeds finds himself besieged by opportunists all gunning for th...
- 1988
Funny Farm (1988)
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Sportswriter Andy Farmer moves with his schoolteacher wife Elizabeth to the country in order to write a novel in relative seclusion. Of course, seclusion is the last thing the Farmers find in the small, eccentric town, where disaster awaits them at e...
- 2015
Matrimonio al Sud (2015)
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A Milanese businessman is beside himself when his son tells him he's going to marry the daughter of a pizza maker from Naples....
- 2017
Omicidio all'italiana (2017)
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To save his crumbling and rapidly-depopulating rural town, its mayor fakes a gruesome murder to attract media attention. His plan initially succeeds, but soon the situation will spiral out of control....
- 1997
Three Men and a Leg (1997)
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Friends Aldo, Giovanni, and Giacomo travel from north to south for Giacomo's wedding, carrying a precious item: the father of the bride, a tyrannical rich man who is both their boss and father-in-law (also Aldo and Giovanni married his daughters), ha...
- 2011
The Greening of Whitney Brown (2011)
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Whitney, a spoiled pre-teen from Philadelphia, is forced to move to the country when her parents feel the squeeze of economic hard times. A fish out of water, far from her comfort zone, she befriends an amazing horse, and undertakes a misguided journ...
- 2004
Formula 17 (2004)
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More interested in romance than sex, "Formula 17" swoons with youthful innocence. Naive country-boy Tien-Tsai travels to Taipei, where his quest to lose his virginity is impeded by his insistence on finding true love first. The film's Chinese title t...
- 1998
L'estate di Davide (1998)
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At 19, David has his diploma (the first in his family), a job at a car wash, and little else. His family is broke and argues constantly. So, unannounced, David leaves Turin for his uncle's farm in Polesine. Here he learns many life lessons over the c...
- 1971
Hayat Sevince Güzel (1971)
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Turkish Pollyanna's story....
- 2018
Chinese Portrait (2018)
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Shot over the course of ten years on both film and video, the film consists of a series of carefully composed tableaux of people and environments. Pedestrians shuffle across a bustling Beijing street, steelworkers linger outside a deserted factory, t...