Clive Revill, Edward Andrews, Franco Acampora
An uptight businessman travels to Italy where he falls in love with the daughter of his late father's mistress.
DVD Release Date: July 15, 2003
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Flixster Reviews (99)
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November 18, 2008Another one of the many films Wilder made with Jack Lemmon. Lemmon is a high strung American executive always in a hurry and unable to understand the Italian way of slowing down and enjoying life. He goes to an Italian island to collect his father who died in a car accident. H...( read more)
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May 1, 2008so so rom-com by the script-writer of "the apartment" also starring jack lemmon but nowhere near as good. juliet mills gets her boobs out. i really don't know what else to say about it. jack lemmon is a great actor but he's just shoved into a mostly impotent script here
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June 4, 2009This underrated and amusing comedy just makes me want to jump on an airplane for a vacation in Italy. Perfect to get into holiday mood and my favorite Billy Wilder film apart from Sunset Boulevard.
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April 15, 2008Very sweet. Not a typical cynical Wilder film. And I find it disturbing that everyone insists she's overweight. I love when Jack Lemmon says that with girls like Twiggy, you'll end up all black and blue.
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January 13, 2008Funny a little bit....but i did thougt that it would be better than it.
But fortunately, i had some pleasure to watch it, because it's in ITALY.
And i did not knew Juliet Mills, and i should to say that it's a good actress, because she seems really "crazy" in her role, and it's...( read more) -
May 13, 2007i love this movie, i love the soundtrack!!! i can watch this one any day!!! actually i gotta stop, it is starting to warp.....
Critic Reviews
October 23, 2004
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
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