While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

The movie runs out of plot and jokes well before the end of a two-hour running time, long for a light comedy.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

One of the reviewers (from Minneapolis) said "bad choice of casting the leading actress prone to overacting." Nope. Growing in a NY Neapolitan/Sicilian neighborhood, I didn't see her overacting. That's just the way my BFFs were. Dramatic. Passionate. Over the top. I found her performance an honest portrayal. (And laughed at the scene where the cop buys her colorful clothes, b/c everyone in NY, Sicilian or not...wears black.) PS: My family visited Sicily the year this trial took place. I remember the guards w/Uzis both out side the Palace of Justice and in the airport.And I'd give this movie an 8.5.

Sicily and mafia. It would be a first thought an average person would have, however unjust or unfair it might be. " The Sicilian Girl" is a strange, a bit clunky movie, torn between the court drama and passionate bloody opera. The medieval, macabre, isolated world of rural Sicily, with its outdated sense of honor and codes of conduct, that nobody else would understand or relate to. The heroine of this movie is a strong willed, privileged young woman, trying to avenge the death of her father and brother. Gradually, she manages to accept the fact that they both, were criminals, like the people she hated. The movie is missing something hard to explain,firmer shape, and there is a bad choice of casting the unfortunate leading actress prone to overacting.

Someone tells you one word: "Sicily". Quick, quick, what do you think? you think of Godfather scenes, of rolling rural landscapes, societies scarred by vendettas and inter-family violence, closeups of old rugged facial lineaments, scenes of emigration on rural lifestyle.Now, the true Sicily is much different, with modern office buildings, people holding cell phones and having business meetings, and a much more urban society.For a motion picture financed and produced just a few years ago, and supposedly on a modern story, this production was a disappointment. Totally stereotypical. I mean, Antonioni's "L'Avventura" from forty years earlier looks much more modern.Obviously, the producers wanted to create a cash cow and sell it to the American audience, still nostalgic of the GF series. Smart movie-goers can easily see through the facade, and not like this production. The producers think that the audience is stupid enough to see their stereotypical work.If you want to see a motion picture that portrays modern Italy with its crime-ridden background, see Gomorrah.

Having lived in Sicily, this movie had extra relevance for me, especially as it deals with an aspect of the investigations into the Mafia, by magistrates Falcone and Borsellino, and the resulting maxi-trials in Palermo, with which I was not familiar, namely the part played by Rita Atria. I particularly liked the way the role of the mother typifies the see-nothing/say-nothing attitude of the people. This is emphasized in the scene where Rita's mafioso father is murdered by a rival. Windows and shutters are quietly closed and the piazza is deserted save for the corpse. The director also deserves credit for not making Rita a docile, frightened informer; instead she is feisty and she is not slow to tell the police what she thinks of them. It is a beautifully paced movie,with a well-told tale and is, like, "Gomorra" which concerned the Neapolitan Mafia, the Camorra, a movie that makes you angry. Angry at the utter scum who still permeate society in southern Italy and angry at the corruption of public officials who deal with such scum. At least something good has come out of those investigations and trials. There is a grassroots movement in Palermo called "addiopizzo". Young business people who were so shocked by the excesses of the mafia during the period of the investigations and the maxi-trials that they took to the streets, as can be seen in real-life footage at the end of this movie, and declared they were no longer willing to pay the "pizzo" (extortion) money demanded by the Mafia. A gripping and important movie.