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Together! The Most Rib-Tickling Team Since Adam and Eve!
Certificate: 15
Running Time: 119
Retail Price: £17.99
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Content Type: Movie

Synopsis:
Vittorio De Sica - the great Italian neo-realist director of Shoeshine and Bicycle Thieves - completely changes pace for this delightful comedy anthology, a trio of sexual escapades that helped make Loren and Mastroianni the two most popular Italian performers of 20th Century cinema.

Adelina (Loren) sells black-market cigarettes on the streets of Naples to support her unemployed husband Carmine (Mastroianni). Caught by the police, and with a jail sentence hanging over her head, desperation sets in. She learns that she can avoid prison as long as she's pregnant. Several years and seven children later, Carmine is exhausted, so jail looks inescapable as does Adelina's contempt for Carmine.

In Milan, our second protagonist, Anna (Loren), is bored and wealthy, drives a Rolls Royce, and is having an affair with a writer (Mastroianni). She talks dreamily of running off with him, that is until one day he crashes her car…

In the third and final vignette, Loren plays Mara, a call girl from Rome, who turns the head of a naive young man training to become a Priest, prompting a run-in with his self-righteous grandmother and a vow of abstinence. Featuring Loren's notorious striptease, which was recreated years later by Robert Altman in Prêt-à-Porter.

Special Features:
None

Video Tracks:
Anamorphic Widescreen 2.35:1

Audio Tracks:
Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono Italian

Subtitle Tracks:
English

Directed By:
Vittorio De Sica

Written By:






Starring:
Sophia Loren
Marcello Mastroianni
Aldo Giuffrè
Agostino Salvietti
Lino Mattera
Tecla Scarano
Silvia Monelli
Carlo Croccolo
Pasquale Cennamo
Tonino Cianci
Armando Trovajoli
Tina Pica
Gianni Ridolfi
Gennaro Di Gregorio

Soundtrack By:
Armando Trovajoli

Director of Photography:
Giuseppe Rotunno

Editor:
Adriana Novelli

Costume Designer:
Piero Tosi

Production Designer:
Ezio Frigerio

Producer:
Carlo Ponti

Distributor:
Eureka! Classics

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