Le comiche
{{Infobox film
| name = Le comiche
| image = Le-comiche poster.jpg
| caption =
| director = Neri Parenti
| writer = Alessandro Bencivenni
Leonardo Benvenuti
Piero De Bernardi
Neri Parenti
Domenico Saverni
| starring = Renato Pozzetto
Paolo Villaggio
| music = Bruno Zambrini
| cinematography = Sandro Tamborra
Roberto Gerardi
| editing =
| producer = Mario Cecchi Gori
Vittorio Cecchi Gori
| released ={{Film date|1990}}
| language =Italian
}}
Le comiche is a 1990 Italian comedy film written and directed by Neri Parenti and starring Renato Pozzetto and Paolo Villaggio.{{cite news|last1=Mario Serenellini|title=No, non è Fantozzi ma gli somiglia|url=http://ricerca.repubblica.it/repubblica/archivio/repubblica/1990/11/10/no-non-fantozzi-ma-gli-somiglia.html?ref=search|accessdate=24 November 2015|work=La Repubblica|date=10 November 1990}}{{cite book|author1=Roberto Chiti |author2=Roberto Poppi |author3=Enrico Lancia |title=Dizionario del cinema italiano: I film|publisher=Gremese, 2000|isbn=8877424230}} It had two sequels, Le comiche 2 (1991) and Le nuove comiche (1994).{{cite book|last=Paolo Mereghetti|title=Il Mereghetti - Dizionario dei film|publisher=B.C. Dalai Editore, 2010|isbn=8860736269}}
Plot
Neri Parenti creates some comic episodes, inserting various gags taken from films of the past: Laurel and Hardy, Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton. In the silent black and white prologue two railroad workers, Paolo and Renato, are trying to outrun a steam train and jump out of the screen into a movie theatre; in the first episode they are bungling painters who ruin a wedding; in the second the two friends destroy a gas station; in the third episode they are forced to work in the mountain chalet, ruining the holiday for all customers; in the last the two friends are the perfect double of two fierce mafia, who plan to use the "twins" for a suicide mission; in the epilogue Paolo and Renato are chased by characters of all the episodes back into the silent film.
== Cast ==
- Renato Pozzetto as Renato
- Paolo Villaggio as Paolo
- Fabio Traversa as Mario
- Alessandra Casella as Domitilla
- Gian as Amilcare
- Tiziana Pini as Amilcare's wife
- Enzo Cannavale as the priest
- Sal Borgese as the gas station attendant
- Renato D'Amore as the innkeeper
- Giovanni Cianfriglia as the trucker
- Ennio Antonelli as the pizza chef
- Andrea Belfiore as the stripper at the nightclub
- Pierfrancesco Villaggio as the bodyguard
- Franca Scagnetti as a guest at the wedding
See also
- List of Italian films of 1990
- https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Le_comiche
References
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External links
- {{IMDb title|0099293}}
- [https://www.archiviodelcinemaitaliano.it/index.php/scheda.html?codice=DD8769 Le comiche] at ANICA, Archiviodelcinemaitaliano.it
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Category:Films directed by Neri Parenti
Category:Films scored by Bruno Zambrini
Category:1990s Italian-language films
Category:Italian-language comedy films
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