Happy Family Page #6

Synopsis: Ezio is a screenwriter scared by happy endings, who earns his living thanks to an invention of his father. He is going through a creative crisis, until he has a car crash with Anna, who invites him to dinner. Once there, the stories of several characters get interwoven, triggered by the decision of the 16 year-old Filippo, Anna's son, to get married. Dinner's attendees become the characters of Ezio's new screenplay, but they will try to interfere with his work.
Genre: Comedy
Director(s): Gabriele Salvatores
Production: 01 Distribution
  1 win & 6 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.7
Year:
2010
90 min
741 Views


and it's always been there.

Instead, we think and die.

- What comparison's that?

- The one on chairs was better?

#The hospital had a huge window#

#on the Gulf of Panama. #

#When Marta's father told us,#

#we all flew down. #

#Once there, we knew#

#it was a question of days. #

#Vincenzo wanted#

#to die in that room,#

#looking at the sea,#

#his new discovery. #

#Caterina told him#

#we were expecting a baby. #

#He asked me to come closer,#

#and whispered... #

If you hurt her, I'll come back

and smash your face.

I found her and I won't leave her.

Ezio.

Yes sir.

Don't be so formal with me.

#He'd sit in front of the window#

#smoking marijuana with his friend. #

#They talked about boats#

#they'd buy, travels... #

- We'll go around the world.

- Great!

How long will it take?

80 days minimum.

Time frame's too long.

#One morning they found him dead,#

#with a smile on his face,#

#as if saying:
"Don't worry,#

#I'm just pulling your leg. "#

That's why we're here.

There's Grandma Anna.

She made a chocolate and pear cake.

#I think she doesn't realize#

#who's dead. #

#She's asked me three times#

#when it gets over,#

#she wants to know#

#how the cake turned out. #

#Caterina is#

#in her ninth week of pregnancy#

#and this may be#

#the worst day of her life. #

#But her face can't keep a sad look,#

#almost as if her belly#

#were a happiness potion. #

#There's Filippo#

#with a friend of his, Carlo. #

#He comes to the house every day,#

#they lock the bedroom door#

#and study together. #

#Anna is beautiful. #

#In her eyes, besides tears,#

#there's the realization#

#that when something ends,#

#fortunately or unfortunately,#

#something new begins. #

#There's also Marta and her mother,#

#they fought the whole time. #

You're getting no tattoo, clear?

It's my skin,

I'll do what I want with it!

I made you and I can un-make you!

#Gianni and Lucia had four puppies. #

#I asked the other Gianni#

# if he'd watch them for a few days. #

#He was so thrilled. #

That's the story

I wanted to tell you,

I hope you liked it.

It's not real,

nothing I wrote really happened.

But I've always liked

making up stories.

"I'D RATHER READ OR

WATCH A MOVIE THAN LIVE...

LIFE HAS NO STORYLINE"

GROUCHO MARX:

#I watch donkeys fly#

#high up in the sky,#

#but ducks are having fun#

#as swans in the stream#

#that's white as ink. #

#Trains go steaming#

#over great seas of blue,#

#and white gondolas bloom at dusk#

#on reeds of bamboo. #

#I see all these#

#strange things and more,#

#when tic-tac, tic-tac,#

#my heart is high above#

#the ecstasy of love!#

I'm your neighbor,

you may not remember...

- Ezio, right?

- Yes.

A pleasure, Caterina.

A pleasure.

- Do you need something?

- No.

I mean, yes.

- My doorbell.

- Your doorbell.

It doesn't work, so I wondered

if it's just my doorbell

or everyone's in the neighborhood,

do you mind if I...?

Go right ahead.

It works.

Thank you, maybe we'll meet again.

I was going to take a ride,

want to come?

- Around Milan?

- Yes.

Because the weather's a little...

"iffy".

- If it rains?

- We'll get wet?

- But if the sun comes out hot...

- We'll dry off.

We'll dry off.

Well, it's June 24th.

So?

We have all the time we want,

it's the longest day of the year.

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Alessandro Genovesi

Alessandro Genovesi (born 10 January 1973) is an Italian director, screenwriter, playwright and actor. more…

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