What if your wingman was old enough to be your grandpa?
Alarmed by the news that for each working Italian there's a retiree, 70-year-old Walter decides to do his part by helping "a young person who's working for him." He chooses Piero, a model worker and upstanding citizen so shy that he can't bring himself to declare his feelings for night-time street cleaner Francesca. Walter starts giving him some old-hand advice on the matter.
Acting
Carlo Delle Piane steals every scene with mischievous grandpa wisdom.
Writing
Turns Italy's pension crisis into genuinely sweet comedy.
Director
Luca Miniero
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The film's premise directly satirizes Italy's 2000s pension crisis, where declining birth rates created genuine labor-economy panic.
Directors Miniero and Genovese would later helm 'Perfect Strangers' (2016), Italy's most exported comedy—this was their gentler warm-up.
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