Adriana Conserva, Fabio Tetta, Giulia Matturo
While playing outside one day, nine-year-old Michele discovers Filippo, who is chained to the ground at the bottom of a hole. Michele witnesses town baddie Felice nearby and suspects something bad is ...( read more
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DVD Release Date: October 19, 2004
Stats: 375 reviews
Part suspenseful thriller and part coming-of-age drama, I'm Not Scared is a minor masterpiece of film making from director Gabriele Salvatores. It's a story of crime and courage, a story of a young boy's realization that there is evil in the world and those nearest him ar...( read more)
This magical Italian rite of passage movie manages to do some difficult things very well but is less successful when bogged down with the demands of conventional storytelling. When it's going nowhere in particular, just showing something vaguely sinister chipping away at a boy's ...( read more)
a good thriller from a child's eye view. great performances by the kids.
Slow moving in parts, but still kept my interest throughout. A fresh perspective for this type of story and one that told through the eyes of a child.
To have carried off the lead role in this film was perhaps difficult enough, but young Giuseppe Cristiano gave the most natur...( read more)
FANTASTIC drama, on the same quality level as The Boy in the striped Pyjamas.
It keeps you on the edge of your chair and fills you with both amazement and disgust.
An Italian must see movie!
Beautiful cinematography and naturally-performed acting enhance the brilliance of this modest, scary/disturbing and inspiring Italian modern jewel. Very inspiring and moving ending.
69/100
an interesting story about a boy michele who discovers that his father is involoved in kidnapping a wealthy young child filippo starting to help him out feed him tell him about his mom that he sees in tv asked about him . nice story
A reminder of true childhood, of its fears and speculations, of the way a conversation can be overheard but not understood, of the way that the shape of the adult world forms slowly through the mist. full review
Both a spooky reverie about childhood and a slow-burning suspenser in which conspiracy and betrayal shake the foundations of a boy's life. full review
Powerfully and palpably capturing the isolation, confusion and unnameable fears of childhood. full review
A fierce, frightening and deeply moving study of childhood. full review
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