Gomorrah (Gomorra) (2008)
82%RT Audience Score: 70%
Awards & Nominations: NA
Portraying organised crime with an unflinching realism, this gritty and searing Italian crime masterpiece pulls no punches
Gomorrah is like a punch to the gut, but in a good way. It’s not your typical gangster movie with all the glamour and excitement. Instead, it’s a gritty and intense look at the world of organized crime. The violence is shocking, but it’s not glorified like in other films. You’ll be on the edge of your seat, but you’ll also feel a sense of dread that will stay with you long after the credits roll. It’s not a movie for the faint of heart, but if you’re up for a challenge, Gomorrah is definitely worth a watch.
Production Company(ies)
Stanley Kubrick Productions,
Distributor
IFC Films
Release Type
Filming Location(s)
MPAA / Certificate
TV-MA
Year of Release
2008
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Color:Color
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Sound mix:Dolby Digital
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Aspect ratio:1.85 : 1
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Runtime:2h 17m
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Language(s):
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Country of origin:United States
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Release date:Release Date (Theaters): Dec 19, 2008 Original
Release Date (Streaming): Aug 4, 2009
Genre(s)
Crime/Drama
Keyword(s)
Worldwide gross: $34,861,529
Worldwide gross (inflation-adjusted): NA
Worldwide gross ranking (inflation-adjusted): NA
Worldwide tickets sold (est.): NA
US/Canada gross: $1,579,146
US/Canada gross (inflation-adjusted): NA
US/Canada gross ranking (inflation-adjusted): NA
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US/Canada opening weekend (inflation-adjusted): NA
US/Canada opening weekend ranking (inflation-adjusted): NA
Budget and Earnings Details
Production budget (est.): NA
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Box office net earnings to date (inflation-adjusted est.): NA
ROI to date (est.): NA
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Audrey Hepburn – Princess Ann
Eddie Albert – Irving Radovich
Tullio Carminati – Gen. Provno
Hartley Power – Mr. Hennessy
Laura Solari – Secretary
Director(s)
Matteo Garrone
Writer(s)
Maurizio Braucci, Ugo Chiti, Matteo Garrone, Gianni Di Gregorio
Producer(s)
Domenico Procacci
Film Festivals
Awards & Nominations
NA
Academy Awards
All Critics (157) | Top Critics (56) | Fresh (143) | Rotten (14)
There is nothing grand or operatic about Gomorrah and, as a result, it is poundingly powerful. It is heartless yet gripping, off-hand yet peculiarly intimate, and courageous in the way it presents itself.
August 23, 2018
Deborah Ross
The Spectator
TOP CRITIC
March 18, 2010 | Rating: 5/5
Dave Calhoun
Time Out
TOP CRITIC
We don’t get to know the characters, exactly, but we experience something more interesting: we are brought into disconcerting, almost documentary proximity with the lives they lead and the worlds they inhabit.
May 15, 2009 | Rating: 4/5
Philippa Hawker
The Age (Australia)
TOP CRITIC
Over the course of this sprawling mosaic about the world’s most fearsome Mafia organization, the Neapolitan Camorra, [director] Garrone makes the business look like a beast of many tentacles, spreading misery and death to everyone it touches.
May 1, 2009 | Rating: A-
Scott Tobias
AV Club
TOP CRITIC
Gomorra has its own nerve, as well as the filmmaking intelligence to strip the cliches from its densely packed, authentically inhabited narrative. The new moviegoing year just got one hell of a jolt.
April 10, 2009 | Rating: 4/4
Michael Phillips
Chicago Tribune
TOP CRITIC
The sense of authenticity in this movie is palpable, but the scenes are sometimes so dark and so impenetrable that it takes a herculean effort to keep up with who’s who and what’s going on.
April 9, 2009
Jonathan F. Richards
Film.com
TOP CRITIC
There are interesting sociological features here, but like most gangster films, Gomorrah gets much more caught up in the scenes of violence than is healthy.
February 13, 2021
David Walsh
World Socialist Web Site
The violence in Gomorrah is shocking, but there’s none of the exhilaration you find in films like Scarface or Goodfellas or City of God. Instead, what you get is a terrible, gut-clenching sense of clammy dread.
November 13, 2020
Jason Best
What’s On TV
An intensive and exhausting study of organised crime, Gomorrah holds back on the glamour and goes full-bore with the graft.
October 19, 2020 | Rating: 4/5
Leigh Paatsch
Herald Sun (Australia)
The violence here is all the more unnerving arriving as it does, as pro boxers say, like the punch you didn’t see coming. Its style falls between the verite school of documentary and a revitalized Italian Neorealism.
June 18, 2020
David Lamble
Bay Area Reporter
This is a bleak look at a putrid culture and the way its black tentacles extend throughout Italy.
October 3, 2019
David Harris
Spectrum Culture
Craft-wise it’s solid, but beyond in-house intrigue there’s not an awful lot going on beneath the surface.
July 7, 2019 | Rating: 3/4
Mattie Lucas
From the Front Row…
Plot
Organised crime clans fight wars and make fleeting alliances in the dynamic and ever-shifting underworld of the poverty-stricken Naples, Italy. Gennaro, the son and heir of the Savastano clan, and Ciro Di Marzio, one of this clan’s officers, have great ambition to advance to ever-greater heights. The path ahead is bloody and cruel, and their families will be put at risk.
Trivia
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