{"product_id":"8809046778032","title":"Star Maker L'uomo Delle Stelle","description":"This Italian film was released in 1995 and slowly made its way around the world; its English title is \u003ci\u003eThe Star Maker\u003c\/i\u003e. Like the Oscar-winning \u003ci\u003eCinema Paradiso\u003c\/i\u003e by the same writer-director, Guiseppe Tornatore, it's drenched in the filmmaker's love for cinema. In Sicily in the early 1950s, Joe Morelli (Sergio Castellitto) is a con man who travels by truck from village to village posing as a film company representative. For a fee, he offers the rubes screen tests, using passages from a script of \u003ci\u003eGone with the Wind\u003c\/i\u003e and encouraging their hopes with lines such as \"Success awaits you!\" Morelli's camera brings out people's hidden sides, including a soldier's war trauma, a woman's protests at being accused of prostitution, and a policeman who recites poetry. Begging for a chance at the stardom Morelli purportedly offers, Beata (Tiziana Lodato) asks Morelli to take her with him. ~ Michael Betzold","brand":"SUPER D INDEPENDENT DIST.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47092300022000,"sku":"8809046778032","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/8809046778032","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}