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Last modified: Feb. 16, 2013

This Must Be The Place

Release Date: Friday, November 2, 2012 Limited

A retired rockstar hunts the Nazi criminal who ordered his father's concentration camp execution.

Director: Paolo Sorrentino

Starring: Sean Penn Frances McDormand Harry Dean Stanton Shea Whigham Joyce Van Patten

R Comedy 1 hr, 58 m

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A retired rockstar hunts the Nazi criminal who ordered his father's concentration camp execution.

Plot

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Plot
Cheyenne (Sean Penn) is a former rock star. At 50, he still dresses "goth" and lives in Dublin off his royalties. The death of his father, with whom he wasn't on speaking terms, brings him back to New York. He discovers his father had an obsession: to seek revenge for a humiliation he had suffered. Cheyenne decides to pick up where his father left off, and starts a journey, at his own pace, across America.
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The film's director Paolo Sorrentino last directed The Hand of God and Loro. The film's writer Paolo Sorrentino last wrote The Hand of God and Loro.

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Francesca Cima
Nicola Giuliano
Andrea Occhipinti

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Changed the movie production status to Production. Shooting in Dublin

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Changed the movie production status to Pre-Production. Schedule to shoot in Dublin starting August 16, 2010

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R Restricted for language, some sexual content and brief disturbing images
Runtime
1 hr, 58 m
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Language
English

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This Must Be The Place was released in limited movie theaters on Friday, November 2, 2012. There were 14 other movies released on the same date, including Flight, The Man with the Iron Fist and Wreck-It Ralph. As a limited release, This Must Be The Place was shown in select movie theaters in major markets.

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