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    Mid-August Lunch

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    Pranzo di ferragosto
    Italy
    2008     Comedy    
    1h 15min
    Original language: Italian
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    Gianni is a middle-aged man, the only son of his widowed mother, with whom he lives in an old house in central Rome. Living under the tyranny of this impoverished aristocrat, his life drags on between housework and going to the bar.

    The day before the August bank holiday the condominium manager asks him to take his mother into his home for the two days of the bank holiday. In exchange, he will knock some money off the condominium debts Gianni has run up over the years.

    Gianni is forced to accept.

    The manager treacherously turns up with two women, since he doesn't know where to take his aunt, he brings her along too.

    Gianni is overwhelmed and crushed by the clash between these three dominant characters, but heroically does his best to make them happy. At a certain point he feels faint and calls a friend of his who is a doctor. The doctor not only reassures Gianni, but foists his own elderly mother on him, since he is on shift at the hospital.

    Gianni goes through 24 hours of hell.

    But when at last it's time to say goodbye, the women have other ideas...

    Directed byGianni Di Gregorio
    Written byGianni Di Gregorio, Simone Riccardini
    CompanyZeitgeist FilmsZeitgeist FilmsZeitgeist Films

    Starring

    Valeria De Franciscis
    Marina Cacciotti
    Maria Calì
    Grazia Cesarini Sforza
    Alfonso Santagata
    Luigi Marchetti
    Biagio Ursitti
    Petre Rosu
    Gianni Di Gregorio
    Marcello Ottolenghi

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