Name: Una botta di vita
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1988-12-22
Duration: 1 h 46 min
Rating: 5.8
Cast: Alberto Sordi, Bernard Blier, Andréa Ferréol

A very underrated gem with the late Blier and Sordi, this movie is in the typical style of the most celebrated "Commedia all'italiana" movies of the 1960s and 1970s, and some sort of old age counterpart of Dino Risi's "Il Sorpasso / The Easy Life". It is also a great performance for the Sordi-Blier duo, which on its own justifies a 10 vote.

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