The Postman (1994) movie poster

The Postman (1994)

Il postino
"Dreams do come true."
ThumbScore
👍 85%Google users liked it ⓘ
Critics Score
🎬 88%
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Director
Michael Radford
Runtime
1h 54m
Country
Italy, France, Belgium
Language
Italian
TMDB Rating
7.9/10 (1,202 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes
94%
Metacritic
81

Cast

Massimo Troisi as Mario Ruoppolo · 84% avg
Philippe Noiret as Pablo Neruda · 79% avg
Maria Grazia Cucinotta as Beatrice Russo · 76% avg
Renato Scarpa as Telegrapher · 81% avg
Linda Moretti as Donna Rosa
Mariano Rigillo as Di Cosimo
Anna Bonaiuto as Matilde · 70% avg
Sergio Solli as Peasant · 73% avg

Is The Postman good?

Yes. 85% of real audiences liked it, by Google's archived audience score. Critics agree, scoring it 88%.

Where it ranks on ThumbScore

Rank in its genre
#470 / 2672 · Comedy
Rank in its year
#28 / 84 · 1994
On ThumbScore's lists
100 Best Romantic Comedies Ranked by Audience Score (#93)

By audience score, among films with 500 or more votes.

Overview

Simple Italian postman learns to love poetry while delivering mail to a famous poet; he uses this to woo local beauty Beatrice. Wikipedia ↗

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What Reddit Thinks

r/movies
⬆ 870💬 101 comments
The Postman flopped in 1997 but resurfaces as an eerily prophetic dystopian film for our time
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Top comment: "The article doesn't really state the story very well. It's based of a series of stories by David..."
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⬆ 742💬 207 comments
20 years later, The Postman still isn't good but maybe it's not quite as bad as you remember
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Top comment: "I loved The Postman and I loved Waterworld. Nothing will ever change that. Nothing."
r/movies
⬆ 461💬 14 comments
Composer Luis Bacalov has died at 84. Best known for the Oscar winning score to Il Postino: The Postman and for the amazing theme for Django & other spaghetti westerns.
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Top comment: "Didn't he also do something for Kill Bill? E: Yep, he did!"
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