Three Italians have to move from their current city to vote to local elections elsewhere. Pasquale is an Italian emigrant living in Munich (Germany). He has to vote in Matera, Basilicata (south of Italy). He is genuinely happy to come back to Italy, even if it’s just for a few days; but the country he is dreaming is different from the reality he meets. Furio moves from Torino to Roma with all his family. He is so niggler and annoying that Magda, his wife, is thinking to escape. Mimmo is a young good fellow, moving with his grandmother, from Verona to Roma. His trip is disturbed by worries about her health, while she is very calm.
Category: Comedy
Broad satire and buffoonery presented as a series of movie trailers. Among the titles and subjects are: “The Howard Huge Story”, “Skate-boarders from Hell”, “The Invasion of the Penis Snatchers”, Woody Allen (pre-Mia), movie trailer come-ons, Charlie Chaplin, war movies, Billy Jack. The source of the title is presented about an hour into the film.
In 1927 Chicago, the body of a theatrical agent is found in the apartment of his client, would-be dancer Roxie Hart, who lives with her husband, Amos. Convinced by two reporters that juries never convict pretty women and that she can garner fame by confessing, Roxie, who knows Amos is guilty, agrees. Amos hires snappy lawyer Billy Flynn to stir publicity, and Roxie is a sensation. But when public interest flags, Roxie fears she might be convicted after all.
A young New York woman, devastated to find out that her husband has been cheating on her, decides to hop a plane to Paris to get away. However, she falls asleep on the plane, misses her connection, and winds up in Israel, with no money, no luggage and no friends.
An unpopular high school senior student faces a difficult year and gets himself expelled from school. Taking tips from a convict, he smartens up to gain admission in another school under an alias.
Gianni, Nicola and Antonio become close friends in 1944 while fighting the Nazis. After the end of the war, full of illusions, they settle down. The movie is a the story of the life of these three idealists and how they deal with the inevitable disillusionments of life.
Former dancing partners Kitty and Don, reunited after WWII, find love for one another as war widow Kitty attempts to maintain custody of her son from the boy’s wealthy grandmother.
Frantisek, the main character is returning to his family. Until now he’s been, “successfully” avoiding all relationships. He is an ingenuous and a pure person and thus, is regarded as an idiot. He becomes involved in various love and family conflicts. It is because he hasn’t experienced much of the “real” life that he is able to perceive human relationships in their genuineness.