Genre: Comedy

Language: Italian with English Subtitles

Director: Gabriele Salvatores

Cast: Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Margherita Buy, Valeria Bilello, Fabio De Luigi.

Released: 2010

Duration: 90 Minutes

Rating: M contains drug use & offensive language

Distribution: Palace Films

Academy award-winning veteran director, Gabriele Salvatores ('Mediterraneo'), delivers a colourful tongue-in-cheek comedy about a writer holed up in his apartment in Milan one hot summer, trying to punch out a story while being pestered by the characters that come to life around him.

Recently dumped screenwriter Ezio (Fabio De Luigi, 'Many Kisses Later') is having trouble writing a story about two neurotic families whose paths cross when their teenage children, Filippo and Marta, decide to marry. Filippo's parents (played by scene-stealer Fabrizio Bentivoglio and the magnificent Margherita Buy) and Marta's parents (the remarkable Diego Abatantuono and Carla Sinoris) arrange to have dinner to meet for the first time, with hilarious consequences. Ezio soon writes himself into his script, and into a love story, while the characters pester him about wanting bigger and better roles!

Gorgeously shot, playfully acted and energetically paced, Salvatores tips his hat to the film's origins on stage (co-scripter Alessandro Genovesi helped adapt his own successful play) with opening shots of a stage curtain preparing the audience for the theatrical interplay to come.

"Not to be missed"
La Repubblica.

"Happy Family is a real delight… You can drink it like a glass of DOC wine"
L'Unità.