Golden Door (2007)

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Rating: PG-13

Release Date: May 25, 2007

Running Time: 112 mins.

Additional Notes: dialogue English and Italian, Sicilian dialect, subtitled English

Country Of Origin: France

Country Of Origin: Italy

starring: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Vincenzo Amato, Aurora Quattrocchi, Vincent Schiavelli, Francesco Casisa, Filippo Pucillo, Federica De Cola, Isabella Ragonese, Massimo Laguardia, Filippo Luna

director: Emanuele Crialese

The Golden Door

The turn-of-the-century voyage of a poor family from rural Sicily through the "golden door" of Ellis Island and into America. On a perilous steamship journey from his Sicilian village, the widower Salvatore Mancuso encounters a ravishing, mystery-shrouded Englishwoman, Lucy, Amid a harrowing crossing, an unexpected love story unfolds all the way to the halls of Ellis Island, where both Salvatore and Lucy will stop at nothing to make it to the America of theirimaginations.

Writer/director Emanuele Crialese opens The Golden Door to a delightfully quirky, highly imaginative and genuinely heartfelt tale about the early 20th-century immigrant experience.

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Who wouldn't want to live in a land of opportunity where money grows on trees? Doctored photos of all that America purportedly offerschickens taller than ostriches, onions the size of meteorsconvince Salvatore Mancuso (Vincenzo Amato) that everything is bigger and better in the New World than it is in his native…