Movie Info

Somerset Maugham was a master teller of stories about superficial people who are revealed and drastically changed by circumstance or luck. His novella...(read more...) Up at the Villa is a tale of death, seduction, blackmail and theft among British and Americans in Florence in the turbulent days just before World War II. The film, despite an outstanding cast including Kristin Scott Thomas, Anne Bancroft, Sean Penn and Derek Jacobi, is strangely mannered and rather flat, more like a waltz than the tango Maugham might have had in mind.

Director: Philip Haas

MPAA: PG-13

Running Time: 115 min.

Release Date: May 05, 2000

Cast: Anne Bancroft, Derek Jacobi, James Fox, Jeremy Davies, Kristin Scott Thomas, Massimo Ghini, Sean Penn