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Top Movies Eight Below Date Movie The Pink Panther Curious George Final Destination 3 Firewall Freedomland When a Stranger Calls Big Momma's House 2 Nanny McPhee New Releases Curious George Final Destination 3 Firewall The Pink Panther Date Movie Eight Below Freedomland Something New Failure to Launch When a Stranger Calls Top Celebs Reese Witherspoon Brad Pitt Paris Hilton Mariah Carey Lindsay Lohan Scarlett Johansson Phil Collins Britney Spears Angelina Jolie Jodie Marsh	Captain Corelli's Mandolin  Release Date - August 17, 2001  Distributor - John Madden.  Duration - 128 Mins.  Type - Romance and Drama. ( Rated R )  Writer : Shawn Slovo and Tim Metcalfe.  Producer : Kevin Loader.  Director : John Madden.  Starring : Nicolas Cage, Penelope Cruz, Christian Bale, David Morrissey and John Hurt.  Synopsis The idyllic beauty of Greece's Mediterranean coast has been invaded by Italy, bringing legions of soldiers to the once tranquil island of Cephallonia. Captain Antonio Corelli (Nicolas Cage), an officer with an irrepressibly jovial personality and passion for the mandolin, initially alienates a number of the villagers, including Pelagia (Penelope Cruz). The daughter of the village doctor, Pelagia is an educated and strong-willed woman, and while at first offended by the Italian soldier's behavior, she slowly warms to his certain charms as they are forced to share her father's home.  Critic Reviews Director John Madden knew how to show Shakespeare In Love. But on the evidence of this conventional and dull movie, underpowered in every respect, he doesn't know how to show Corelli in love. He's not helped by the giant miscasting of Nicolas Cage, who doesn't seem to possess a romantic bone in his body and whose well-worn American face and badly fitting Eye-talian accent can't salvage a romance that falls from wishful epic into a string of clichés. Its most successful moments are not the love scenes between the captain and the doe-eyed doctor's daughter, played by Penelope Cruz, but the war scenes that subject the islet of Cephallonia to Stuka bombardment and see Corelli's occupying forces of hedonistic Italians massacred by their one-time German allies. All the pre-premiere hype about Greek opposition to the way the novel depicted the Communist partisans is hard to understand looking at the film, since Christian Bale, playing a leading partisan, is dropped out of the story once he has plighted his troth with Cruz and only gets a token look-in now and then. The movie feels it was made 50 years ago, when audiences were more naive. The explanation for scene after scene, routinely photographed and staged unconvincingly and thinly, with the cast dutifully reciting their lines but without feeling or conviction, lies in a script by Shawn Slovo that should never have been allowed to go into production in such an underdeveloped state. Ten years ago, an Italian film entitled Mediterraneo told almost exactly the same story, set on the same remote Greek isles, about an invading Italian officer falling for a local Greek girl, and it did so with wit, irony and an intuitive feeling for how the southern Mediterranean seduces those whom war has made into enemies. By comparison, Captain Corelli's Mandolin resembles a Mills and Boon novelette folded into a tourist brochure, with noises off.   For rating reasons : filmrating.com, mpaa.com                                    For Parents : Parentalguide.com
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