Parents in Progress (2019)

August. 29,2019

5.6

| Comedy

Simona is a single mother in her early ‘40s who is wholly devoted to her son, Filippo. To get over her insecurities as a parent and make her son happy on his eighth birthday, she decides to throw him a birthday party in their small flat and invite over his school friends and their parents. For Simona, this birthday is about to pose quite the surprising dilemma between allowing her son to embrace his true self and a mother’s fierce desire to protect her child from their potentially cruel surroundings. This is the last conundrum she was expecting to have to face on a day that is already rife with anxiety.

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Cast

Anna Foglietta as Simona

[2021] All Star - Ritorno al cinema [2021] Il coraggio del leone [2021] Alfredino - Una storia italiana [2021] Trafficante di virus [2021] Blackout Love [2021] Si vive una volta sola

Paolo Calabresi as Aldo

[2022] Takeaway [2021] Help! My In-Laws Are Vampires! [2021] Mollo tutto e apro un chiringuito [2021] La bambina che non voleva cantare [2021] School of Mafia [2021] Luna Park

Marina Rocco as Sabrina

[2023] Tre di troppo [2021] Floodland [2019] Parents in Progress [2018] Magical Nights [2013] Crazy Me [2008] Wild Blood

Reviews

Micransix

2019/08/29

Crappy film

Ceticultsot

2019/08/30

Beautiful, moving film.

AnhartLinkin

2019/08/31

This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

Adeel Hail

2019/09/01

Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.