Rotten
The Sicilian Girl seems so beholden to the historical outline that it never comes alive as either a character study or a crime thriller.
Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
The Sicilian Girl
What would drive a seventeen-year-old girl to betray her family? And if that family was the mafia?
2008 · 1h 53m · Not Rated
Drama
Directed by
Marco Amenta
Overview
Inspired to a true story, on November 5th 1991, Rita Atria a young 17-year-old Sicilian girl, goes to see an anti-Mafia judge Paolo Borsellino to denounce the Mafia system that was responsible for the murder of her father and her brother. It is the first time that such a young woman from a Mafia family rebels and betrays the Mafia. From that moment on, Rita's days are numbered. She only has nine months to live...
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
52%
Tomatometer
Fresh
D'Agostino beautifully captures Rita's innocence, anger, confusion and her increasingly tough resolve.
Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post
Rotten
Watching this is like going to the dentist for a root canal, but he makes a mistake and injects the novocaine into your brain.
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune
Rotten
Amenta does neither the subject nor Atria justice with this acceptable, uninspired dramatization.
Ty Burr, Boston Globe
Rotten
Amenta was deeply moved by Rita's story, but his prosaic direction can't do it justice.
Walter V. Addiego, San Francisco Chronicle
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