Il pranzo della domenica (2003)

User Rating:

6.2/10   

Director:

Carlo Vanzina

Writers:

Carlo Vanzina (writer)
Enrico Vanzina (writer)

Release Date:

29 April 2003 (Italy)

Genre:

Comedy

Plot:

Franca Malorni, a well-off widow in Rome, falls and breaks a thigh-bone during a traditional Sunday lunch with her closest relatives...

Awards:

2 nominations

Cast

Massimo Ghini	...	Massimo Papi
Barbara De Rossi	...	Barbara Proietti
Rocco Papaleo	...	Nicola Loiacono
Maurizio Mattioli	...	Maurizio Proietti
Elena Sofia Ricci	...	Sofia Loiacono
Galatea Ranzi	...	Susanna Papi
Virginie Marsan	...	Ilaria Papi
Marco Messeri	...	Marchese
Paolo Triestino	...	Notaio Luzi
Giovanna Ralli	...	Franca Malorni
Amadeus	...	Himself
Valentina Andreatini	...	Sabrina
Stefano Antonucci	...	Moderatore TV
Gianfranco Barra	...	Onorevole Torrisi
Angelo Bernabucci	...	Consigliere calcio

Also Known As:

Sunday Lunch (International: English title)

Runtime:

96 min

Country:

Italy

Language:

Italian

Color:

Color

Certification:

Argentina:13

Filming Locations:

Rome, Lazio, Italy

Company:

International Video 80

Credible depiction of the upper middle class in today's Rome

"Il Pranzo della Domenica" is one of the Vanzina brothers more quiet comedies. It gives a fairly credible depiction of the upper middle class in today's Rome, at the beginning of the third millennium. It reminds similar Italian comedies from the 1950's, and its main asset lies in the cast. All the actors and actresses are in fact very good and credible in their respective roles. Giovanna Ralli as the well-off widow and matriarch, Massimo Ghini as the womanizing divorce lawyer, Rocco Papaleo as the left-wing journalist full of principles, Elena Sofia Ricci as his wiser wife and Maurizio Mattioli as the amiable right-wing florist. Galatea Ranzi and Barbara De Rossi completes the cast as Ralli's other two daughters. Not really a film to remember, but fun if you know modern Rome.