Caterina in the Big City

Caterina in the Big City

2003 · 105 min · IT · NR · 6.6 (230 votes)
Dir. Paolo Virzì · Starring Sergio Castellitto, Margherita Buy, Alice Teghil, Federica Sbrenna, Margherita Mazzola, Carolina Iaquaniello

Sometimes you just want to fit in... or not.

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When her social-climbing father is relocated from small-town North to his native Rome, 12-year-old Caterina enrolls to his old school, finding herself in an completely different environment where students rigidly divide themselves in subcultures based on social class and their parents' political affiliation.

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A tender, sometimes funny, look at navigating the treacherous waters of middle school in a new city. It captures the universal pangs of trying to find your place and your people amidst social divides.

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