The Place

About The Place

The fates of an apparently random group of strangers who each come into contact with a mysterious figure who they believe possesses the power to grant any wish, in return for which they must carry out a task he assigns them.

Paolo Genovese's The Place is a 2017 thriller film. Released in November 2017, it runs 102 minutes.

Its themes are restaurant, waitress, wish, and moral dilemma. The story is adapted from a television series.

Valerio Mastandrea takes the lead as L'uomo, Marco Giallini as Ettore, Alba Rohrwacher as Chiara, and Vittoria Puccini as Azzurra. The screenplay is by Isabella Aguilar and Paolo Genovese. Produced by The Tornante Company. It streams on Film Movement Plus Amazon Channel in the United States.

Follow That Bird, As Good as It Gets, and Bedazzled make useful companions to The Place, all filed under based on TV series. TMDB voters put it at 7.1 out of 10 across 1,267 votes.