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Where to Watch Mamma Roma (1962) in the US

1962
Not Rated
1h 50m
7.8IMDb
95%Rotten Tomatoes

Drama

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What it's about

With a fervent yearning for respectability and enough money to buy herself a brand-new life in Rome, the uninhibited, fearless, determined former streetwalker Mamma Roma renounces her ignominious past to reunite with her loafing 16-year-old son Ettore. Free at last from her disgusting pimp and ex-lover Carmine, Roma is bent on making an honest living running a humble vegetable stall, but a malicious extortion scheme and the equally insidious menace of exposure threaten to put an end to her zealous aspirations for a decent bourgeois existence. For his own sake, Ettore must be spared the violence of the adult world; nevertheless, can a lone single mother protect her only son from the same snares that wounded her youth?

Cast and crew

Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Writer: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Starring: Anna Magnani, Ettore Garofolo, Franco Citti

Details

Release date: Jan 18, 1965
Language: Italian
Country: Italy
Awards: 2 wins & 1 nomination