My House in Umbria (2003) on Netflix
TV-1420031h 43mDramaMysteryThriller
After surviving a train bombing, Emily Delahunty invites three survivors to her Umbrian villa, among them Aimee, a mute American orphan. As they recover, Emily grows attached to the girl.
- Netflix3.4/5
- IMDb6.9/103,912 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes67%
Plot summary
Emily Delahunty, a British author of romance novels, lives in Umbria, Italy. On a trip to Milan, she is caught in a terrorist bombing of her train and survives. After her stay in hospital, she takes three other survivors to her country house to recover. One is a retired British military man called the General, who lost his daughter. Another is Werner, a young photographer from Germany who lost his girlfriend. The third is Aimee, an American girl whose parents died in the attack and who no longer speaks. While the group heals, Inspector Girotti looks into the bombing. Under Emily's care, Aimee begins to talk again, and the four become like a family.
Cast
- Deirdre Harrisonas Phyllis
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about My House in Umbria (2003)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Scenes at Delahunty's villa, the film's principal setting, were shot at Villa Arceno, a historic estate in the Province of Siena, Tuscany, a former private estate dating back to the 17th century that was owned by a consortium at the time of filming.
- The Italian landscape had changed so much since the period in which Trevor's novella is set that Loncraine and his team sought locations keeping the old architectural, agricultural and natural features, rebuilding what no longer matched; he called it recreating "an Italy that is perhaps no longer there."
- Maggie Smith won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie and the film won the Producers Guild of America Award for Best Long-Form Television, on top of nominations at the Golden Globe Awards, the Directors Guild of America and the Satellite Awards.
- The film's first HBO broadcast drew approximately 3 million viewers, a strong audience for a television film but lower than other recent HBO originals such as Mike Nichols' miniseries Angels in America, which drew 4.2 million.
