Parenti Serpenti (1992)
3.8 of 5 from 45 ratings
1h 45min
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- Synopsis:
It snows plenty in a small town of the Abruzzi, on Christmas Eve, where they arrived from various cities, to spend the holidays together every year to old parents, their daughters Lina (with her husband Michael and son Mauro), Milena (with her husband Philip) and sons Alexander (with his wife Gina and her daughter Monica) and Alfredo, who is a bachelor. The grandmother Trieste, still active and lucid, and his grandfather Xavier, a former policeman, who does have the mind rather confused, welcome them with great joy and atmosphere of the house is full of affection and warmth. Of course you follow all the traditions, the Christmas kiss to the parents, the tree with gifts, midnight mass, the dinner, bingo, while the first rifts emerge and gossip, especially between the two sisters and sister. Then grandmother Trieste, moved the many demonstrations of affection during lunch on Christmas Day, informs relatives that she and her grandfather have decided to move in together with any of the children the last years of their lives, after discarding with horror the idea of the hospice. He added that, in addition to half of their pension, will be donated to a child who will welcome them home they now live in the country. And you do not realize it, the poor thing, that its proposal has upset all the joint, creating a tremendous embarrassment. After some vague answer, just go to the grandparents do their usual walk, relatives, removed the two children, close in a room and start fighting each other, rinfacciandosi sins big and small, with acrimony. The children refuse, and you start talking to a hospice "luxury", when television gives the news of a house exploded because of a bottle of... - Actors:
- Roberto Corbiletto, Alessandro Haber, Paolo Panelli, Monica Scattini, Tommaso Bianco
- Directors:
- Mario Monicelli
- Writers:
- Carmine Amoroso, Suso Cecchi D'Amico
- Aka:
- Dearest Relatives, Poisonous Relations
- Genres:
- Comedy
- Countries:
- Italy
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