FAME READS / SCREEN NOTES
Il Postino: The Postman
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Scores
- Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer94%as of 2024-08-14
- Rotten Tomatoes average7.9/10as of 2021-10-05
- Metacritic81/100as of 2025-08-30
What it is
Il Postino: The Postman is a 1994 comedy-drama film co-written by and starring Massimo Troisi and directed by English filmmaker Michael Radford. Based on the 1985 novel Ardiente paciencia by Antonio Skármeta, itself adapted from a 1983 film written and directed by Skármeta, the film tells a fictional story in which the real life Chilean poet Pablo Neruda forms a friendship with a simple Procida postman (Troisi) who
At a glance
- Genres
- Romance / Drama
- Original language
- Italian
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