Caterina in the Big City
Release date: 2003-10-24
Votes: 265
Genres: Comedy, Drama
When her social-climbing father is relocated from a one-horse town to his native Rome, 12-year-old Caterina enrolls in his old school, finding herself adrift in an environment where eighth-graders form friendships based on social class and their parents' political affiliations.
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