Name: Genitori in blue-jeans
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1960-07-15
Duration: 1 h 40 min
Rating: 5.5
Cast: Peppino De Filippo, Ugo Tognazzi, Scilla Gabel

It's la dolce vita among the middle aged, as Ugo Tognazzi's daughter comes home from the convent school -- a fire started by the girls smoking -- and Tognazzi courts her schoolmate. Meanwhile, Peppino di Filippo and his partner head off to Paris with the latest samples from his line of ladies' underwear and lose them to a couple of strippers. Back in Rome...

The Swinging Sixties have begun in Italy, and it's not the kids going crazy -- although they'd like to -- but the parents, with parties, lots of liaisons, and a middle-class culture of carpe diem. Fellini may have shown us how the idle classes embrace the good life a bit too firmly, but just because you're forty doesn't mean you're dead, even if Alberto Talegalli has a heart attack dancing with Peppino's fiancee.

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Some middle-aged Italian men try to have affairs with much-younger girls.

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Sylva Koscina and Ugo Tognazzi in Genitori in blue-jeans (1960)

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