Rating: R
Genre:
Comedy Drama
Theatrical Release: 08/02/2002(USA
Release Date: 11/11/2003
SubTitles: English/French/Espanol
Dubbed: Italian
Sound: DD
Run Time: 118 Minutes
Flags: Adult Language, Substance Abuse, Sexual Situations
Distributor/Studio: Walt Disney Video
Parenthood stirs up a wealth of mixed emotions in this drama from Italy. Carlo (
Stefano Accorsi) and Giulia (
Giovanna Mezzogiorno) are a couple in their late twenties who realize they've crossed the final threshold into adulthood when Giulia discovers she's going to have a baby. Even though Carlo has already settled down, he sees parenthood as the first step towards becoming the sort of middle-class suburbanite he's never respected, and he's not happy about it. Carlo's friends are also having mixed feelings about the onset of maturity: Adriano (
Giorgio Pasotti) can't decide if he should go through with his marriage to Livia (
Sabrina Impacciatore), Paolo (
Claudio Santamaria) is trying to find a way out of going into business with his father, and Alberto (
Marco Cocci) seems to be waging a one-man war against monogamy by seducing as many women as possible. Meanwhile, Giulia is having her own misgivings about parenthood, and her mother Anna (
Stefania Sandrelli) is torn between happiness for her daughter and dread that she's now old enough to be a grandmother; Anna's malaise isn't eased by the lack of compassion shown by her husband (
Luigi Diberti).
~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
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