Ferrari(2023)

R
Rated R for some violent content/graphic images, sexual content and language.
2h 10m

Release Date: Dec 25, 2023 | Wide

Set in the summer of 1957, with Enzo Ferrari's auto empire in crisis, the ex-racer turned entrepreneur pushes himself and his drivers to the edge as they launch into the Mille Miglia, a treacherous 1,000-mile race across Italy.

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Original Release | Dec 25, 2023

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Opening Weekend US & Canada:
$3,921,773
Total US & Canada:
$18,550,028
Total International
$24,786,644
Total Worldwide:
$43,336,672

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Director & Top Cast

Adam Driver
Enzo Ferrari

Giuseppe Festinese
Piero Lardi

Derek Hill
Jean Behra

Penélope Cruz
Laura Ferrari

Gabriel Leone
Alfonso de Portago

Michele Savoia
Carlo Chiti

Jacopo Bruno

Omer Orsi

Domenico Fortunato

Adolfo Orsi

Damiano Neviani

Stagehand

Giuseppe Bonifati

Stagehand

Franca Abategiovanni

Stagehand

Marino Franchitti

Eugenio Castellotti

Valentina Bellè

Cecilia Manzini

Luciano Miele

Peppino

Daniela Piperno

Adalgisa Ferrari

Technical Specifications

Sound Mix: Dolby Atmos,Dolby Digital,Dolby Surround 7.1

Aspect Ratio: 2.39 : 1

Other Details

Country of Origin: United States,United Kingdom,Italy,Saudi Arabia

Language: English

Summaries

Plot Summary

Enzo and his wife Laura started the automobile company called Auto Construzioni Ferrari in 1947, in the aftermath of the 2nd world war.In the summer of 1957, Italian entrepreneur Enzo Ferrari (Adam Driver) prepares his racing team for the Mille Miglia, an open road, endurance-based race lasting one thousand miles. Grappling with both domestic and professional crises, Ferrari and his estranged wife, Laura (Penelope Cruz), grieve for their only son, Dino, who died a year prior. While he has kept Laura from learning of his infidelities, Ferrari's mistress, Lina Lardi (Shailene Woodley), pressures him to grant their illegitimate son, Piero (Giuseppe Festinese), the Ferrari name as his confirmation nears.Enzo wants to hire the Maserati driver Jean Behra (Derek Hill) for the upcoming racing season. Enzo is late arriving at the train station due to his visit to Lina and misses him. Behra has announced his intention to challenge the world record held by Ferrari driver Eugenio Castellotti (Marino Franchitti). Enzo is shown to be very connected to his son Alfredo/Dino who died at the age of 24. Enzo visits Alfredo's grave from time to time. Enzo admits to Dino's grave that Laura is not the person anymore whom he fell in love with. Enzo's mother Adalgisa (Daniela Piperno) says that she lost Enzo's brother Alfredo in WW2 and believes that she lost the wrong son.Behra breaks Ferrari's speed record, and Eugenio is too slow to be able to take it back. A race car driver Alfonso De Portago approaches Enzo for a job at the tracks, where Eugenio was struggling with the speed. Eugenio has an accident and dies on the tracks. He is survived by his fiance Cecilia Manzini (Valentina Belle). Ferrari is blamed by the media for his terrible driver safety record. Ferrari blames Eugenio's mother who wanted him to marry a woman of high class, which put a lot of weight on his shoulders and distracted him. Laura typically manages the money side of the business. Laura stops Eugenio's paychecks, but Enzo wants Laura to give $25,000 to Cecilia so she can buy a house.Meanwhile, in the wake of the groundbreaking development of the team's Formula One car, Ferrari's manufacturing company is suffering from severe financial hemorrhaging. Ferrari's accountant Giacomo Cuoghi (Giuseppe Bonifati) says that Enzo is not making enough production cars to pay for the racing business. Cuoghi asks Enzo to bring on a financial partner to increase production from 98 cars to 400 cars per year. In order to sell 400 cars, they need to win at the Mille Miglia. Enzo hires Alfonso De Portago after watching him race on the tracks. Enzo asks him to keep his romantic conquests away from the tracks as it takes the media focus away from his cars. De Portago is dating actress Linda Christian (Sarah Gadon). Carlo Chiti (Michele Savoia) is Enzo's engineer. Other Ferrari drivers are Peter Collins (Jack O'Connell), Piero Taruffi and Wolfgang Von Trips (Wyatt Carnell). Sergio Scaglietti (Lino Musella) is the car designer.Faced with no other choice, Ferrari must merge with a sister company to continue doing business. However, Laura owns half of Ferrari's shares, and in order to move forward on deals, Enzo must convince Laura to sign the entirety of the company over to him. A resentful Laura demands a check for $500,000, which will bankrupt the company if she cashes it. Laura visits the bank to get a check for Cecilia. The arrangement is that Laura will own the property, while Cecilia will have the rights to stay rent free. The banker mistakenly reveals that Enzo has a similar arrangement for another property in Castelvetro. Laura confirms her suspicions that Enzo has been having an affair after finding where Lina and Piero live in the countryside outside Modena. Enzo agrees to write the check and trust her to wait to cash it till a deal for the future of the company is made.Enzo makes a deal with reporter Gino Rancati (Andrea Dolente) to plant a story that Enzo is not negotiating a partnership with Ford for the future of Ferrari. Laura pressures the bank to give her details of the payments made to Lina Lardi. When confronted, Enzo admits that the boy is his. Laura blames Enzo of ignoring his own son Alfredo and causing his death. Enzo is devastated at the allegation and says that he did everything in his power to save Alfredo.As the Mille Miglia commences in Brescia, Ferrari is in direct competition with Maserati owned by Adolfo Orsi (Domenico Fortunato). The winning team gets to survive as both companies need cash infusion, but only the winner will get it. Ferrari encourages his drivers to remain ahead of the competition. Ferrari has 5 cars in the race, while Maserati has 2 cars driven by Behra and Stirling Moss (Ben Collins). Moss is out in the first leg of the race as his brake pedal falls off. Gianni Agnelli (Tommaso Basili), the owner of Fiat, picks up Ferrari's planted story about negotiations with Ford and calls Enzo. Gianni offers a partnership to Ferrari to keep the company ownership in Italy as he considers Ferrari a national treasure. Behra is run off the road by De Portago and now he is in the lead for the race. With both Maserati's drivers out, it is Ferrari's race as all of his drivers are in the top slots. So, now the Ferrari drivers start competing among themselves. Enzo refuses to order them to hold their positions as he knows that the drivers will not listen. During a pit-stop in Rome, Enzo's newest addition to the team, Alfonso De Portago (Gabriel Leone), refuses to change tires in order to stay in the lead; he suffers a blowout and loses control of the vehicle, which veers off the road, killing De Portago, his navigator, and nine onlookers in the resulting crash, including children. Another of Ferrari's drivers, the veteran Taruffi (Patrick Dempsey), completes the round trip to Brescia and wins the race.Ferrari is blamed by the media for De Portago's lethal accident, and Laura cashes her check to provide bribe money for journalists. She signs over the full rights to the company, requesting that in return, Enzo refrain from giving Piero the Ferrari name until after her death. Enzo agrees, and later brings Piero to his half-brother's grave.Piero joined Ferrari as Engineer when he was 19 years old. Enzo was cleared of all charges from the accident during Mille Miglia. Laura died in 1978. Enzo and Lina lived together in Modena. Piero is now Vice Chairman at Ferrari.

Storyline

Enzo Ferrari 's auto empire in crisis, the ex-racer turned entrepreneur pushes himself and his drivers to the edge as they launch into the Mille Miglia, a treacherous 1,000-mile race across Italy. Set during the summer of 1957. Ex-racecar driver, Ferrari, is in crisis. Bankruptcy stalks the company he and his wife, Laura, built from nothing ten years earlier. Their tempestuous marriage struggles with the mourning for one son and the acknowledgement of another. He decides to counter his losses by rolling the dice on one race - 1,000 miles across Italy, the iconic Mille Migl! — Deadline Hollywood Enzo Ferrari an Automobile entrepreneur is a troubled man with multiple problems. His business is running into losses, he continues to have a rough relationship with his wife and his mistress keeps pestering him to acknowledge their child. To tide over his poor financial state he plans to make money by getting his driver to enter the car race across Italy. — Madan Marwah

Movie Review

Ferrari

In his first feature film in eight years, director Michael Mann passionately captures a life where the drive for success and the threat of disaster were intricately intertwined.

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