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Succede anche nelle migliori famiglie (2024)

77 min · Comedy

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Directors

Alessandro Siani

Cast

Alessandro Siani, Cristiana Capotondi, Euridice Axen, Antonio Catania

A volunteer with a medical degree returns to his family’s Sicilian villa after his father’s death, where his mother’s plan to marry her former sweetheart meets united opposition from her children.

The story

Davide Di Rienzo has a medical degree but does not practice medicine, volunteering with Caritas instead. His overbearing, hypercritical father, a renowned doctor, regards him as the family’s black sheep. After his father’s death, Davide returns to the family villa in Sicily with his siblings, Isabella, a psychologist, and Renzo, a lawyer. Their mother, Lina, shaken by her loss, asks them to stay. After several days, she seems cheerful and invigorated, confusing her children. She explains that she plans to marry Angelo Cederna, her former sweetheart. The three siblings oppose the marriage, but Lina ignores their objections and proceeds with the wedding arrangements.

Full plot (contains spoilers)

Davide Di Rienzo has a medical degree but does not practice medicine, choosing instead to volunteer with Caritas because he is cowed by his overbearing, hypercritical father, also a renowned doctor, who considers him the black sheep of the family. After his father’s death, Davide returns with his two siblings, Isabella and Renzo, who work as a psychologist and a lawyer, respectively, to the family villa in Sicily. Their mother, Lina, visibly shaken and weakened by her loss, asks her children to stay with her. After several days at the family estate, their mother seems invigorated and cheerful, leaving the three siblings confused and incredulous. She explains her change of mood by announcing that she is about to marry Mr. Angelo Cederna, her former sweetheart from her youth. The three siblings are united in opposing their mother’s marriage to Cederna, but she pays no heed to them and proceeds with the arrangements for her second wedding. On the wedding day, a series of events brings family secrets to light, once again overturning the family dynamics between the mother and her children.

Genres

Comedy

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