Mamma Roma
1962·Pier Paolo Pasolini
Drama
86.5composite
After years spent working as a prostitute in her Italian village, middle-aged Mamma Roma has saved enough money to buy herself a fruit stand so that she can have a respectable middle-class life and reestablish contact with the 16-year-old son she abandoned when he was an infant. But her former pimp threatens to expose her sordid past, and her troubled son seems destined to fall into a life of crime and violence.
95%Rotten Tomatoes
78IMDb11K votes
Ranking Formula
86.5
out of 100
🍅Rotten Tomatoes95.0
50% weight — Critic consensus
👥IMDb78.0
50% weight — Audience rating
How we calculate the score
RT 95.0 × 0.50
+ IMDb 78.0 × 0.50
= 86.5