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  • 2010
  • Leisure Time Features
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  • 2010
  • Leisure Time Features
  • 1 h 20 m
Tano da morire

Summary A groundbreaking movie musical about the Sicilian Mafia, To Die For Tano tells the “true” story of Tano Guarrasi, a Mafia man of honor who was gunned down in his butcher shop during the bloody 1988 Mafia war. During his life, his terrible jealousy doomed his 4 sisters to spinsterhood. After his death, Tano’s sisters were liberated to pur...

Directed By: Roberta Torre, Vincenzo Navarra

Written By: Enzo Paglino, Gianluca Sodaro, Roberta Torre

  • 2010
  • Leisure Time Features
  • 1 h 20 m
  • 2010
  • Leisure Time Features
  • 1 h 20 m

Tano da morire

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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Summary A groundbreaking movie musical about the Sicilian Mafia, To Die For Tano tells the “true” story of Tano Guarrasi, a Mafia man of honor who was gunned down in his butcher shop during the bloody 1988 Mafia war. During his life, his terrible jealousy doomed his 4 sisters to spinsterhood. After his death, Tano’s sisters were liberated to pur...

Directed By: Roberta Torre, Vincenzo Navarra

Written By: Enzo Paglino, Gianluca Sodaro, Roberta Torre

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 6 Critic Reviews
47
33% Positive
2 Reviews
50% Mixed
3 Reviews
17% Negative
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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 6 Critic Reviews
47
33% Positive
2 Reviews
50% Mixed
3 Reviews
17% Negative
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80
Lovers of deliberate kitsch should seek it out and make it a part of all celebrations of bad taste. Lovers of “The Godfather” films and new age mafia types like the “Sopranos” have always been into bad taste and so won’t get this.
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80
Roberta Torre’s debut takes true incidents from the Mafia wars that plagued Palermo in the late ’80s and kicks them into a deliriously gaudy farce.
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50
Humor is inconsistent, and the film suffers from lack of shape and fluidity, playing more like a series of disjointed sketches. But there are more than enough high points to compensate.
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50
An inexplicable multiple award winner, To Die for Tano left me more perplexed than pleased. But then I don’t really get Roberto Benigni either.
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50
Manically entertaining, Tano may have been a popular hit, but its caricatured world of papier-mâché bad taste fulfills at least one Underground criteria: Save for a big showstopper in the Vucciria market, it all could've been shot in someone's basement.
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25
The Italian film industry must be in sad shape when its latest import to the US is a tired bit of trash from 1997, To Die for Tano.
By V.A. Musetto FULL REVIEW

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Production Company A.S.P., Dania Film, Lucky Red, Rai 3, Tele+, VIP National Audiovisual
Release Date Feb 12, 2010
Duration 1 h 20 m
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Awards

Golden Ciak Awards
• 4 Wins & 8 Nominations
Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists
• 3 Wins & 6 Nominations
Venice Film Festival
• 3 Wins & 3 Nominations

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