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Cast

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Adriano Celentano ... Elia Codogno
Ornella Muti ... Lisa Silvestri
Edith Peters ... Mamie
Pippo Santonastaso ... Don Cirillo
Milly Carlucci ... Renata
Sandro Ghiani ... Benzinaio
Nicola Del Buono ... Vittorio
Vincenzo De Toma ... Contadino malato
Jimmy il Fenomeno ... Campagnolo
Elena Mari
Angela Mainardi
Guido Spadea
Marco Columbro ... Guidatore del camioncino
Gianni Coletto ... Nipote di Mamie
Massimo Mirani
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The Taming of the Scoundrel (International: English title)
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104 min
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The carpet on Lisa's "sick room" was fake. It was just painted on the floor to accomplish the stunt where Lisa's bed gets pulled out of the room with a tractor. more
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8 out of 9 people found the following review useful.
Pretty Celentano movie, 28 October 2005
7/10
Author: michelerealini from Switzerland

"Il bisbetico domato" ("The taming of the Scoundrel") contains in the title a reference to Shakespeare's work "The taming of the shrew"... That's all, because the film has no other connection with the English author.

A rich farmer is well known for being very unkind. He's misanthropic, misogynous and cantankerous. Until he meets by chance a gorgeous girl...

The movie is a typical tailored story for Adriano Celentano, one of the biggest Italian music stars -he's hugely popular in German speaking countries and in the Eastern Europe as well. "Il bisbetico domato" is not a musical, and it is directed by the couple Castellano & Pipolo (authors of many Celentano flicks). It stars beautiful diva Ornella Muti.

The film is fine and funny, although not a cinematic monument. It's just a pretty film, with humor and without big inventions. Certainly we laugh, but above all we watch it because of the main actors -the couple works very well. At the time of its release the picture was, as usual, a smash hit in Italy.

I think you can really appreciate these movies, first, if you're a Celentano fan. I also think you should see them in the Italian version only -because the singer/showman has a peculiar voice and a way of telling the lines you'd completely miss with the translation.

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