Avanti (UK)

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Review of Avanti
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Mark Oates

When someone knocks at your door and says "Permesso?", be careful before you say...
Certificate: 12
Running Time: 141 mins
Retail Price: £12.99
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Content Type: Movie

Synopsis:
In this hilarious, light-hearted comedy from Billy Wilder and screenwriter I.A.L. Diamond, a wealthy American discovers romance and the meaning of "avanti" while in Italy. Based on the play by Samuel Taylor, nominated for five Golden Globes and winning one for best actor - Avanti is as the best of Wilder.
When Wendell Armbruster (Jack Lemmon), an American businessman, goes to Italy to claim his father`s body after a fatal car accident, he finds himself caught up in a seemingly endless procession of red tape - and the shock of finding out that his father had a mistress who also died in the crash. When the daughter of the mistress arrives to take her mother`s body back to England, sparks fly. But when the parents` bodies disappear from the morgue, a search brings these two acrimonious foes together in an affair of mystery... and of the heart.

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