Overview
Broke, and armed only with his sense of humor, middle-aged Gianni lives with his mother in their old apartment. The debts are mounting, but if Gianni looks after the building manager's mother during the Ferragosto, a mid-August holiday, all will be forgiven.
Fun facts
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Nominations
2 award nominations, including the European Film Award for Best Screenwriter (2009)
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Box office
Grossed $9.52M worldwide, about 19.0 times its $500K budget
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Setting
Set in Rome
Details
- Director
- Writers
- Simone RiccardiniWriter, Story
- Gianni Di GregorioWriter, Screenplay, Story
- Original title
- Pranzo di ferragosto
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- April 30, 2008
- Original language
- Italian
- Budget
- $500K
- Revenue
- $9.5M
- Countries
- Italy
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Cast
Gianni Di GregorioGianni- Valeria De FranciscisValeria (Gianni's Mother)
- Maria CalìTia Maria (Alfonso's Aunt)
- Grazia Cesarini SforzaGrazia (Marcello's Mother)
- Marina CacciottiMaria (Alfonso's Mother)
- Luigi MarchettiVikingo
Alfonso SantagataAlfonso- Marcello OttolenghiMarcello (Doctor)
- Petre RosuBarbone
- Biagio UrsittiLuigi
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