Happy Family (2010 film)

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Happy Family
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Directed by Gabriele Salvatores
Written by Alessandro Genovesi
Gabriele Salvatores
Produced byMaurizio Totti
Starring
Cinematography Italo Petriccione
Music by Louis Siciliano
Release date
  • March 2010 (2010-03)(Los Angeles) [1]
Running time
90 minutes
CountryItaly
LanguageItalian

Happy Family is a 2010 Italian comedy film directed by Gabriele Salvatores. It was inspired by Luigi Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author . [2] [3]

Contents

The film won the Best Editing award at the 2010 Nastro d'Argento ceremony. [4]

Plot

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.

Cast

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References

  1. Vivarelli, Nick (8 February 2010). "L.A. event to honor Salvatores". Variety. Retrieved 2 July 2020.
  2. Senjanovic, Natasha (14 October 2010). "Happy Family -- Film Review". The Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved 20 August 2015.
  3. Weissberg, Jay (1 April 2010). "Review: 'Happy Family'". Variety . Retrieved 20 August 2015.
  4. "Nastri d'argento - premi 2010" (in Italian). RAI. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 20 August 2015.