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Gabriele Muccino has 13 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1990s through the 2020s. 2 rank in the Top 10%, led by The Pursuit of Happyness.
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A struggling salesman takes custody of his son as he's poised to begin a life-changing professional career.
Dir. Gabriele Muccino · With Will Smith, Jaden Smith, Thandiwe Newton

An IRS agent with a fateful secret embarks on an extraordinary journey of redemption by forever changing the lives of seven strangers.
Dir. Gabriele Muccino · With Will Smith, Rosario Dawson, Woody Harrelson

A Pulitzer-winning writer grapples with being a widower and father after a mental breakdown, while, 27 years later, his grown daughter struggles to forge connections of her own.
Dir. Gabriele Muccino · With Amanda Seyfried, Russell Crowe, Aaron Paul

Italy from the '80s to the present day, through the dreams, loves, successes and failures of four friends.
Dir. Gabriele Muccino · With Pierfrancesco Favino, Micaela Ramazzotti, Kim Rossi Stuart

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.
Dir. Gabriele Muccino · With Stefano Accorsi, Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Stefania Sandrelli

An extended family reunites on an idyllic island to celebrate their grandparents' 50th wedding anniversary. However, a storm causes them to get stuck in there longer than expected, causing secrets and long-held grudges to break out.
Dir. Gabriele Muccino · With Stefano Accorsi, Carolina Crescentini, Elena Cucci

A gay couple living in San Francisco takes in two strangers traveling from Italy to start a new life in America, discovering each other and forming the most unlikely of relationships along the way.
Dir. Gabriele Muccino · With Brando Pacitto, Matilda Lutz, Joseph Haro

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.
Dir. Tony Goldwyn · With Zach Braff, Jacinda Barrett, Casey Affleck
Teenage problems intertwine during the occupation of a high school in Rome. Silvio—much like his peers desperate to lose his virginity—wants to make his move on the girl he likes, despite her being already his friend's girlfriend and not knowing that her best friend harbors feelings for him—while clashing also with his parents, onetime Sixties radicals who look down on the kids' aimless political commitment.
Dir. Gabriele Muccino · With Silvio Muccino, Giuseppe Sanfelice, Giulia Louise Steigerwalt
A look at the lives of Carlo, Giulia, and their friends some 10 years after the events of L'Ultimo bacio.
Dir. Gabriele Muccino · With Stefano Accorsi, Vittoria Puccini, Pierfrancesco Favino
A former sports star who's fallen on hard times starts coaching his son's soccer team in an attempt to get his life together.
Dir. Gabriele Muccino · With Gerard Butler, Jessica Biel, Uma Thurman

A middle-class Italian family is tore apart when the father meets an old flame, the mother—a frustrated onetime actress—auditions for a play, their insecure son tries to make friends through drugs, and their underaged daughter—who has already figured out how to use sex to her advantage—does what she does best to appear on TV.
Dir. Gabriele Muccino · With Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Laura Morante, Monica Bellucci
Carlo and Elisa are a successful couple. He’s a university professor and writer facing a creative block; she’s a brilliant, sharp-witted journalist, known for her internationally published editorials. They live in Rome, moving between accomplishments and routine, affection and something that might be fading. In search of new energy, they travel to Morocco with their lifelong friends, Anna and Paolo, and their thirteen-year-old daughter Vittoria—bright, curious, a little eccentric. Tensions soon rise.
Dir. Gabriele Muccino · With Stefano Accorsi, Carolina Crescentini, Miriam Leone