A family bakery tries to go corporate. What could possibly go wrong? Everything. Deliciously.
The Razzi family owns a small factory of sweets in Macerata. Their desire to enlarge their business to cope with the new Unified European Market brings to a string of fatal mistakes that will ultimately doom their wealth.
Acting
Mariangela Melato's gloriously unhinged matriarch performance
Direction
Monicelli's late-career mastery of comedic timing
Writing
Razor-sharp dialogue about ambition and incompetence
Director
Mario Monicelli
Paolo Bonacelli
Amedeo
Marina Confalone
Lina
Alessandro Haber
Genesio
Benedetta Mazzini
Tiziana
Mariangela Melato
Cinzia
Gianni Morandi
Se stesso
Ornella Muti
Bruna
Michele Placido
Furio
Gigi Proietti
Prof. Rodolfo Melchiorri
Pia Velsi
Zia Isolina
Gianfranco Barra
Don Paolo
Gianfelice Imparato
Avv. Pierattoni
Francesco Guzzo
Camillo
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