Mario Orfini Movies

The very young computer whizzes in this big-big budget Italian movie are beginning to lose their focus on their assignment: to create a computer-generated Eden. In order to inspire them, an innocent gardener (rock-star and comedian Adriano Celentano) is brought in. For a while, this works, as they start taking their models from nature and make some real progress. Unfortunately, a weird phenomenon sends one of the youths hurtling into the computerized world, and it is up to the gardener and a relative to haul him back out. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi

Thrown out of the house by his wife Eva (Trudie Styler), Gene (Gregg Henry) finds an inventive way to get revenge. Traveling out to the desert, Gene purchases a deadly mamba snake and sets it loose in their apartment, locking his wife in with the creature. A lethal game of hide-and-seek ensues as Gene watches the action from a cleverly configured monitoring system. ~ Iotis Erlewine, Rovi

This three-part romantic comedy illustrates that people are never too old to fall in love and often act too old when they are young. Silvio Ceccato plays a man who believes he is Socrates. His concerned wife hires two actors of questionable talent to play his "disciples." Soon the wife and the man's own psychiatrist (Luciano De Cresenzo) are questioning their own sanity. Part two finds the 65 year old Carlotta (Caterina Boratto) as the attractive widow who acts like a teenager. When she falls in love, her conservative son Oscar (Renato Scarpa) and his wife try to stop her -- in fear she will spend their inheritance. The third story finds the impoverished Alphonso (Enzo Cannavale) wandering the street on New Years Eve hoping to buy fireworks for his young sons. He meets a learned astronomer who explains how the new year should really fall a week later. The happy Alphonso accepts the explanation and explodes a cherry bomb the following week, which leads to his arrest. ~ Dan Pavlides, Rovi

This is a slapdash comedy that has several popular Italian television stars in cameos, as well as references to television in the plot (director Renzo Arbore is more involved in the TV medium than in film). The rather weak humor lies in ad-libs and improvisation rather than in a carefully scripted, well-routed scenario. Renzo Arbore plays a film director who has had the good fortune of getting his hands on a Federico Fellini script - it blew out of Fellini's apartment window and into the car the director is driving. Arbore is also a talent scout pushing an aspiring singer named Lucia (Pietra Montecorvina). She does gain some attention with a loud protest song that highlights the rivalry between the north and south in Italy, performed while at the San Remo song festival. The two meager plot lines exist only as vehicles for the improvised humor - and when the actors do not improvise that well, the movie suffers. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi