Gabriele Muccino

Gabriele Muccino

Directing

Biography

Gabriele Muccino is an Italian film director. He is the elder brother of actor Silvio Muccino, who often appears in his brother's films. Born in Rome, Gabriele Muccino gained success with films such as L'ultimo bacio (One Last Kiss) and Remember Me, My Love (Ricordati di me) with Monica Bellucci. He is currently making a switch to directing Hollywood films after L'ultimo bacio won the Audience Award for World Cinema at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival bringing him to the attention of the American film industry. Muccino was handpicked by Will Smith to serve as the director of The Pursuit of Happyness. Said Muccino in a later interview, "Will had to defend me as a choice to the studio; I could barely speak English and I could barely express my vision. I felt protected and that I could push my ideas even when they weren't totally conventional. The reason why I found respect, and respect for my ideas, was because of Will." Muccino also directed Smith's later film, Seven Pounds.

Filmography Movies

Acting

Act of Sorrow movie poster

Act of Sorrow

In this painful melodrama, an aging mother (Claudia Cardinale) attempts to cope with the progressive deterioration of her grown son due to his drug addiction. At first only manipulative, in addition to stealing from her he eventually becomes abusive and violent, and she must take strong measures if she is to save her own life, much less his.

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Emma - Sbagliata Ascendente Leone movie poster

Emma - Sbagliata Ascendente Leone

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Emma - Sbagliata Ascendente Leone

We Are Cinema movie poster

We Are Cinema

An Italian documentary about Italian cinema.

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Self (archive footage)

Making Pursuit: An Italian Take on the American Dream movie poster

Making Pursuit: An Italian Take on the American Dream

This is a "making of" documentary for the hit film "The Pursuit of Happyness". It chronicles a foreign director's perspective on The American Dream, and the challenges in making the film.

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Making Pursuit: An Italian Take on the American Dream

Father and Son: On Screen and Off movie poster

Father and Son: On Screen and Off

A look into Will and Jaden Smith's father and son bond on and off the screen of The Pursuit of Happyness

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Father and Son: On Screen and Off

Ti vogliamo bene Francesco Nuti movie poster

Ti vogliamo bene Francesco Nuti

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Ti vogliamo bene Francesco Nuti

Production

The Pursuit of Happyness movie poster

The Pursuit of Happyness

A struggling salesman takes custody of his son as he's poised to begin a life-changing professional career.

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The Pursuit of Happyness

The Best Years movie poster

The Best Years

Italy from the '80s to the present day, through the dreams, loves, successes and failures of four friends.

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The Best Years movie poster

The Best Years

Italy from the '80s to the present day, through the dreams, loves, successes and failures of four friends.

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Seven Pounds movie poster

Seven Pounds

An IRS agent with a fateful secret embarks on an extraordinary journey of redemption by forever changing the lives of seven strangers.

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The Last Kiss movie poster

The Last Kiss

Michael has a great job, has his 4 best friends, and is in love with a beautiful girl at 30. He loves Jenna but his life seems predictable until someone else enters his life. It seems that everybody's having relationship problems.

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Executive Producer

The Last Kiss movie poster

The Last Kiss

Michael has a great job, has his 4 best friends, and is in love with a beautiful girl at 30. He loves Jenna but his life seems predictable until someone else enters his life. It seems that everybody's having relationship problems.

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The Last Kiss movie poster

The Last Kiss

Giulia and Carlo have been happy together for three years, but Giulia's announcement that she is pregnant sends him into a secret panic. Terrified at his imminent entry into the adult world of irreversible responsibilities, Carlo finds himself tempted by a bewitching 18-year-old girl, Francesca, whom he meets by chance at a wedding. The possibility of one last youthful crazy fling before the impending prison of parenthood proves to be too attractive to resist.

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The Last Kiss movie poster

The Last Kiss

Giulia and Carlo have been happy together for three years, but Giulia's announcement that she is pregnant sends him into a secret panic. Terrified at his imminent entry into the adult world of irreversible responsibilities, Carlo finds himself tempted by a bewitching 18-year-old girl, Francesca, whom he meets by chance at a wedding. The possibility of one last youthful crazy fling before the impending prison of parenthood proves to be too attractive to resist.

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Kiss Me Again movie poster

Kiss Me Again

A look at the lives of Carlo, Giulia, and their friends some 10 years after the events of L'Ultimo bacio.

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Kiss Me Again movie poster

Kiss Me Again

A look at the lives of Carlo, Giulia, and their friends some 10 years after the events of L'Ultimo bacio.

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Gallery

Gabriele Muccino portrait

Gabriele Muccino portrait

Gabriele Muccino portrait