Grandi magazzini (1986)

User Rating:

4.4/10   

Directors:

Franco Castellano
Giuseppe Moccia

Writers:

Franco Castellano (writer) &
Giuseppe Moccia (writer)

Release Date:

30 October 1986 (Italy)

Genre:

Comedy

Plot Keywords:

Cinepanettone | Footsie Under The Table | Female To Male Footsie Playing | Female To Male Foot In Crotch | Beautiful Woman

Cast

Enrico Montesano	...	Evaristo Mazzetti
Nino Manfredi	...	Marco Salviati
Lino Banfi	...	Nicola
Renato Pozzetto	...	Fausto Valsecchi
Paolo Villaggio	...	The 'Robot'
Massimo Boldi	...	Corrado Minozzi
Christian De Sica	...	Antonio Borazzi
Laura Antonelli	...	Elèna Anzellotti
Ornella Muti	...	Ornella / Luisa
Michele Placido	...	Store Manager
Alessandro Haber	...	Umberto Anzellotti
Heather Parisi	...	Girl With Contacts
Paolo Panelli	...	Evaristo's father
Leo Gullotta	...	Simoni
Gigi Reder

Also Known As:

Department Store

Runtime:

110 min

Country:

Italy

Language:

Italian

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Italy:T

Filming Locations:

Cinecittà Studios, Cinecittà, Rome, Lazio, Italy

Company:

Alexandra Film

Trivia:

To celebrate this being his 125th film, producer Mario Cecchi Gori cast every available performer from his previous 124 films (many were uncredited.)

Movie Connections:

References "Dallas" (1978)

Goodmovie from start to finish....

Any movie with Adriano Celentano in it is usually funny and always entertaining.

Grandi Magazzini is certainly both funny and very entertaining! Along with him and many others like Enrico Montesano and Michele Placido, Lino Banfi and Renato Pozzetto, provide the film with different layers of comedy which allows each comic to bring their unique perspective to the screen while incorporating in into the main storyline with hilarious results. Italian comedies like this manage to blend quick one-liners with perfected slapstick, very reminiscent of the Marx brother's films of the 30's and 40's. This film works because no one is taking themselves too seriously and it seems everyone is having fun. Also it's important here that no one actor is the 'lead' but many contribute and work excellent as a team. I am hoping this will be released sometime soon on DVD so that I can see it again after many years. I wonder if the producers could be convinced to do a sequel all these years later???