Ask Me If I Am Happy (2000)
ジャンル : コメディ
上映時間 : 1時間 40分
演出 : Aldo Baglio, Giovanni Storti, Giacomo Poretti, Massimo Venier
脚本 : Aldo Baglio, Giacomo Poretti, Giovanni Storti, Massimo Venier, Walter Fontana, Paolo Cananzi, Graziano Ferrari
シノプシス
Aspiring actors Aldo, Giovanni, and Giacomo work dead-end jobs while focusing on their passion project: staging an adaptation of 'Cyrano de Bergerac'. However, love for the same woman will end their friendship. Three years later, Giovanni and Giacomo reunite to travel from Milan to Sicily after hearing that Aldo is dying.
順風満帆な人生を歩む5人の男たち。彼らは妻に内緒で共同で部屋を借り、それぞれ浮気相手との情事に利用していた。ところがある日、その部屋で女性の死体が発見される。慌てて部屋に集まった5人は、女性の正体や死の真相について議論を続けるうち、互いに疑心暗鬼に陥っていく。
パラグライダーの事故のために首から下が不自由になり、車いす生活を送る大富豪フィリップ。介護者募集の面接にアフリカ系青年ドリスがやって来る。ドリスは不採用の証明書3枚で支給される失業手当が目的だったが、フィリップは彼を気に入って介護者に採用。介護の訓練が始まるが、マイペースのドリス。しかし、傲慢で気難しいフィリップに対してドリスがシニカルなユーモアや深い教養を示すうち、2人の間に友情が芽生えていく。
ジョニー・デップの初主演作で出世作となった同名テレビシリーズを映画化。監督はフィル・ロードとクリストファー・ミラー、脚本はマイケル・バコール。主演は「マネーボール」のジョナ・ヒルと「G.I.ジョー」のチャニング・テイタム。全米で1億ドルを超える興行収入をたたき出し大ヒットとなった。
深い心の傷を負った天才青年と、同じく失意の中にいた精神分析医がお互いにあらたな旅立ちを自覚して成長してゆく姿を描く感動のヒューマン・ドラマ。ボストンに住む青年ウィルは、幼い頃から天才ゆえに周囲から孤立していた。だが、彼の才能に気付いた数学教授のランボーは、ウィルに精神分析医のショーンを紹介する。ウィルはショーンにしだいに心を開いてゆくが、彼の才能に気付いた政府機関や大企業が接近してくる。
それぞれに事情を抱え惨めな生活を送っていた男3人が大学のそばで同居することになったことから、自宅を非公式の学生友好の場として開放しバカ騒ぎを繰り広げるコメディ。
When a group of tourists on a New Orleans haunted swamp tour find themselves stranded in the wilderness, their evening of fun and spooks turns into a horrific nightmare.
After a chaotic night of rioting in a marginal suburb of Paris, three young friends, Vinz, Hubert and Saïd, wander around unoccupied waiting for news about the state of health of a mutual friend who has been seriously injured when confronting the police.
Four young men who belong to a supernatural legacy are forced to battle a fifth power long thought to have died out. Another great force they must contend with is the jealousy and suspicion that threatens to tear them apart.
A computer programmer's dream job at a hot Portland-based firm turns nightmarish when he discovers his boss has a secret and ruthless means of dispatching anti-trust problems.
Two street basketball hustlers try to con each other, then team up for a bigger score.
Craig and Smokey are two guys in Los Angeles hanging out on their porch on a Friday afternoon, smoking and drinking, looking for something to do.
妻の留守中に12人の子供たちの面倒を見ることになった父親の悪戦苦闘ぶりを描く、1950年製作の「一ダースなら安くなる」をリメイクしたファミリー・コメディ。
R・カスダンが製作から脚本、監督まで務めた痛快娯楽ウェスタン。とある事件で出獄したばかりのエメットは、故郷シルバラードに向かう途中、仲間に身ぐるみをはがされたというペイドンと出会う。エメットの弟で正当防衛の殺人で投獄されていたジェイクを助けて逃亡し、そこへ黒人ガンマンのマルが加勢。4人は一途、シルバラードへ向かうが、しかしそこには土地独占を企てる牧場主が嫌がらせを続けており、エメットの姉夫婦も立ち退きを要求されていた。そして酒場のオーナーで町の保安官として君臨しているコッブ達の悪行に怒ったエメットは仲間と共に一味に戦いを挑む……。
A pair of buddies conspire to save their best friend from marrying the wrong woman, a cold-hearted beauty who snatches him from them and breaks up their Neil Diamond cover band.
19世紀末の西部史に名高い、二人組の強盗ブッチとサンダンスの逃避行を、哀愁とユーモアをこめて描く。列車強盗としてならしたブッチとサンダンス。しかし、近代化に向かう時代に、彼らの生き方はあまりにも旧弊だった。新たな夢を求めて、二人は南米ボリビアへと旅立つが……。
幼なじみのフリオとテノッチは17歳の高校生。溢れるエネルギーを持て余し気味の二人が考えることといえばセックスのことばかり。ところが、肝心のガールフレンドたちは旅行に出かけてしまい、せっかくの夏を何をするでもなく過ごしていた。そんなある日、親戚の結婚式で二人は年上の女性ルイサと知り合う。彼女をドライブに誘うためダメもとで“天国の口”という在りもしないビーチの名を口にする二人。ところが、数日後、夫の浮気を知ったルイサはテノッチに一緒にドライブ旅行に行くと告げる。慌てる二人だったが、チャンスとばかりルイサを連れアテのない旅に出るのだった……。
Peter Klaven is a successful real estate agent who, upon getting engaged to the woman of his dreams, Zooey, discovers, to his dismay and chagrin, that he has no male friend close enough to serve as his Best Man. Peter immediately sets out to rectify the situation, embarking on a series of bizarre and awkward "man-dates."
1950年代。新興住宅街《レボリューショナリー・ロード》で暮らすフランクとエイプリルは、可愛い子ども2人がいる理想的夫婦。だが元陸軍兵のフランクは事務機会社のセールスマンという自身の立場に未来が無いと感じ、かつて女優を志願したエイプリルも今は平凡な主婦であることが悩み。突然、家族そろってパリに引っ越そうと言い出した妻の考えに同意して辞職を決めたフランクだが、自分に昇進のチャンスがあると知る。
電気店で働くアンディは、フィギュア収集やテレビゲームをこよなく愛するオタクな40歳の独身男。ある日、アンディはひょんなことから自分が童貞である事実を仕事仲間であるデビッド、ジェイ、キャルたちに知られてしまう。驚いた3人はどうにかしてアンディに初体験をさせようといろいろ世話を焼き始める。そんな中、アンディはネット競売の仕事をしているトリシュという女性と知り合い、ついに初デートに漕ぎ着けるのだったが…。
仕事に人生をささげた大富豪エドワード(ジャック・ニコルソン)と、家族のために地道に働いてきたカーター(モーガン・フリーマン)は、入院先の病室で知りあった。共に余命は6か月。やりたいことをすべてやり尽くそうと決意し、無謀にも病院を脱出。“やりたいことリスト”を手に、さまざまなことに挑戦する。
Fugitive convict Aldo seizes a car, taking policeman Giacomo and civilian Giovanni hostages. While chased by the police all over Italy, they will eventually become friends.
Friends Aldo, Giovanni, and Giacomo travel from north to south for Giacomo's wedding, carrying a precious item: the father of the bride, a tyrannical rich man who is both their boss and father-in-law (also Aldo and Giovanni married his daughters), has entrusted them with a wooden leg, the work of a famous artist.
Al Caruso, John Gresco, and Jack Amoruso are three gangsters working for the Genovese family. After botching yet another hit and discovering that their boss wants to get rid of them, the trio comes up with a plan to sell him to the FBI. However, Al's short-term memory loss could be a problem...
Meet Claudia: dull Giovanni is married with her, Giacomo is divorced and happy of it (until he meets her), and Aldo... is a taxi driver. At the end, who will have won her heart?
Four different comedic episodes, framed by the story of a Zen master and his two helpless disciples.
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A wealthy broker, his loyal butler, and a poor unauthorized seller all see their social positions change in a twist of fate.
A queue at the ATM machine, a displaced family after a seismic shock that has half-washed their home, a tour within an art gallery, moments of everyday life that become the cues for the emergence of comic, farce, paradoxical situations – trademarks of one of the most successful Italian comic groups.
A comedy show.
I corti ("shorts") by Aldo, Giovanni & Giacomo was the first stage show of the comedy trio, with the participation of Marina Massironi. It was recorded live at the Teatro Nuovo in Ferrara on 28 and 29 March 1996. Produced by Agidi, with the theatre direction of Arturo Brachetti.
Old and forgotten, comedian Aldo is brought by his sons into a nursing home called Reuma Park where he finds his old friends and partners Giovanni and Giacomo.
An aspiring singer from southern Italy who's just been dumped moves north to Milan, where he falls in love and enters a TV singing competition show.
Checco, an uneducated but self-satisfied fellow from Milan, who has always dreamed of becoming a police officer, fails his entrance exam for the third time. It must be said that at the oral examination Checco said that the reason why he wanted to join the police was benefits in kind and cronyism! But the young man has connections and he soon finds himself a security agent at the Milan Cathedral. Of course the bumbling idiot proves a living catastrophe! Spotted by Sufien, an Arab terrorist who is preparing an attack against the cathedral, Checco appears as the perfect sucker. To manipulate him, he sends his charming sister Farah to him, with the mission to seduce him...
Alberto (Claudio Bisio), post office manager of a small town in Brianza, under pressure of his wife Sylvia (Angela Finocchiaro), is willing to do anything to get the transfer to Milan. Even pretending to be disabled to climb in the ranking. But the trick does not work and as punishment, he is transferred in a small town in Campania, which to an inhabitant of the north is equivalent to a nightmare ...
The story of a father and a son. An on the road trip from South to North.
Now in the Far North (i.e. Milan!), Alberto has accepted to manage a program for efficiency improvement in the Italian Post. He devotes all his time and all his energy to this noble task and neglects his wife Silvia, which of course annoys her beyond limits. Things do not fare much better in Castellabate where it is rather Maria, Matta's wife, who gets on his nerves by always blaming him for his lack of ambition. One day, due to a misunderstanding, Mattia is transferred to... Milan! And on whose doorstep does he land? Alberto's of course!
Anna and Piero fighting routine of a long marriage, when Piero loses his memory, Anna reconstructs his way. For its part, the concierge Rocco and his friend Michele play in a group that emulates the Beatles and face opposition from their partners. Finally, Marcello and Paola are a divorced couple who, from time to time, pretend they are still together to avoid problems. They are victims of a relentless war of sexes.
Checco is 39 and lived his entire life with his parents. He loves his job where he does nothing the whole day, until something happens that will change his behavior and his life forever...
Six high school friends in their 40s who haven't seen each other in nearly 20 years rekindle their younger selves after a court cancels their diploma, forcing them to repeat the final high school exam.