Da grande (film)

Da grande is a 1987 Italian romantic comedy film directed by Franco Amurri, starring Renato Pozzetto, Ottavia Piccolo and Alessandro Haber.

Eightyearold Marco Marinelli is a bedwetter, scolded by his mother Ottavia Piccolo and teased by his classmates. On his birthday he finds out that his father Alessandro Haber, who is facing economic difficulties, hasnt brought him the Lego he was promised. He runs in tears to his room and puts all his heart into wishing he were big and not subject to these indignities. As a result, he bursts through his clothes in the guise of a fortyyearold man Renato Pozzetto and seeks refuge in the house of his schoolteacher Giulia Boschi, who hes secretly in love with. Mentally, he is still eight years old, and its a puzzle what to do with him, until someone discovers that he has an uncanny rapport with children. Then he becomes a fulltime and highly requested babysitter, but shortly after he is suspected of abducting the bynow longmissing child Marco. He then runs out of money, and fakes the kidnapping of himself, but while chased by the police he eventually turns back into the eightyearold boy.Da grande won the Nastro dargento for best story Silver Ribbon, the oldest movie award in Europe, assigned since 1946 by Sindacato Nazionale dei Giornalisti Cinematografici Italiani the association of Italian film critics. ........

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