The Man Who Cried (2000)

Starring Christina Ricci, Cate Blanchett, Johnny Depp, and John Turturro.

The Man Who Cried is set in the 1940's, about a Russian Jew (Ricci) who is separated from her father, an opera singer, when he goes to America. She is taken to England after her village is invaded, where she is given a new name, Suzie, and a foster family. She is taught to speak English and she grows up to be a singer in Paris. This is where she makes friends with Blanchett's character, an 'older' Russian woman, a very rich man (Turturro) that her character will chase, and a Romani man (Depp) whom Suzie will fall in love with. Turturro's character discovers that Suzie is a Jew and rats her out to the Nazi's. She flees to America, where she discovers her father assumed his entire family had been killed, change his name, quit singing, moved West, and became a studio head, with a brand new family, and he is currently unwell. The last scene shows Suzie singing him a song he sang to her as a child, in Russian, in tears.

The film was okay. Christina Ricci looked beautiful, which was perhaps my favorite part. I missed a large portion of the middle, but I understood the gist of it. I may be inclined to watch it again.

I would recommend it, perhaps, to my mother and oldest sister and I would rate it a 4.

The Man Who Cried currently holds a 35% critic rating and a 59% audience rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

The Man Who Cried trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVU9eE-PnBE

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0206917/

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/man_who_cried/