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This Must Be the Place
Directed by
Paolo Sorrentino
R
2011
1h 51m
Drama
,
Comedy
,
and more
6.7
66%
58%
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Cheyenne, a retired rock star living off his royalties in Dublin, returns to New York City to find the man responsible for a humiliation suffered by his recently deceased father during W.W.II.
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Cast of This Must Be the Place
Sean Penn
Cheyenne
Olwen Fouéré
Mary's Mother
Eve Hewson
Mary
Johnny Ward
Steven
Sam Keeley
Desmond
Danielle O'Brien
Supermarket Girl #1
Margaret O'Reilly
Supermarket Girl #2
Frances McDormand
Jane
Mairin O'Donovan
Old Lady in Bank
Simon Delaney
Jeffrey
Jer O'Leary
Old Man in Cemetary
Master Deng
Chinese Tai Chi Teacher
Jane Myers
Jeffrey's Girlfriend
Heather Fedyk
Elevator Woman #1
Iris Frank
Elevator Woman #2
Andrea Mellos
Elevator Woman #3
Sarab Kamoo
Elevator Woman #4 (as Sara Kamoo)
Sarah Carroll
Woman on Ship
Liron Levo
Richard
Bill Hoffinger
Funeral Elderly Man
David Byrne
David Byrne
Fritz Weaver
Cheyenne's Father (voice)
Judd Hirsch
Mordecai Midler
Bern Cohen
Rabbi
Shea Whigham
Ernie Ray
Nana Ansah
Parking Attendant
Gordon Michaels
Tattooed Guy
Joyce Van Patten
Dorothy Shore
Madge Levinson
Jackie
Frank Adakai
Indian
Kerry Condon
Rachel
Seth Adkins
Jimmy Ping Pong Kid
Stafford Douglas
Ping Pong Kid's Friend
Grant Goodman
Tommy
Suzanne Enslen
Gas Station Attendant
Boots Southerland
Truck Driver (as Boots Sutherland)
Ron Coden
Gun Shop Customer
Amy Julia Cheyfitz
Goth Girl
Harry Dean Stanton
Robert Plath
Heinz Lieven
Aloise Lange
Greg Trzaskoma
Man in Air Terminal
Paolo Sorrentino
Director / Writer
Umberto Contarello
Writer
Andrea Occhipinti
Producer
Nicola Giuliano
Producer
Francesca Cima
Producer
This Must Be the Place Ratings & Reviews
Film Comment Magazine
Nicolas Rapold
The conceit of showing a pop-culture figure's life out of the limelight is beyond hackneyed, but the film's incongruous visual splendor and Penn's all-or-nothing commitment keep Sorrentino's unabashed folly afloat for a while.
Film Comment Magazine
Scott Foundas
Sorrentino's aggressively life-affirming movie has wormed its way into the hearts of a surprising number of usually sensible, discerning critics.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Joe Williams
Penn has created a colorful tour guide, but in "This Must Be the Place," there's no there there.
Chicago Reader
Ben Sachs
Writer-director Paolo Sorrentino handles the story with surprising thoughtfulness.
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
Sean Penn performs another one of his amazing transmogrification acts as the rock star Cheyenne in This Must Be the Place.
Arizona Republic
Bill Goodykoontz
The cast ... is outstanding, dragging the offbeat story through the occasional look-at-me distractions.
Time Out Chicago
A.A. Dowd
Adjust to the Oscar winner's deadpan cartoon impersonation, and you may get on the wavelength of this quirkfest.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Although "This Must Be the Place" holds our attention, it's a little difficult to say where it's headed.
Washington Post
Michael O'Sullivan
If you give Penn (and the movie) a chance, the character works, movingly and somewhat miraculously.
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
The movie replaces emotional precision and intellectual honesty with syrupy sincerity and insistence.
Seattle Times
Tom Keogh
In the end, "This Must Be the Place" isn't just bad. It's inappropriate.
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
This isn't a great movie, but it is a special one.
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
This Must Be the Place gives Penn a chance to vamp and camp in ways that are sometimes touching and mostly annoying.
Los Angeles Times
Sheri Linden
If the movie doesn't entirely get past its hard-to-buy premise, director Paolo Sorrentino does have the courage of his convictions, not just embracing every contradiction but spinning many of the story's contrivances into moments of strange, aching beauty.
New York Times
A.O. Scott
The plot turns are playful as well as jolting, and the visual shocks are gentle: a bison on the porch, the world's largest pistachio, Mr. Penn in his makeup.
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
Bizarre can be good when it's done deftly. In this case, however, it's done ponderously and sententiously.
NPR
Mark Jenkins
This mashup of genres and themes doesn't entirely succeed, but it is warm, funny and ably crafted.
Village Voice
Chris Packham
Penn is astonishing, creating a funny, guileless waif, infusing a faded celebrity figure with tactility and humor.
Slant Magazine
Joseph Jon Lanthier
The film believes in maturity, but only as a freely continual process of acceptance.
The New Yorker
Anthony Lane
This Must Be the Place is dazzling to behold.
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