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A Stroke Of Luck
In this tender Italian-language comedy-drama from director Francesca Archibugi we meet two men with virtually nothing in common who strike up a close and trusting friendship while they also deal with ill-health and the looming potential of their own mortality.
Successful screenwriter Alberto (Antonio Albanese) has begun to suffer acute chest pains and checks himself into the hospital to find out the cause. Garage owner Angelo, meanwhile, has just suffered a life-threatening heart attack. By chance, the two men become hospital room-mates.
In-between Alberto's visitations from various movie industry friends (established via a series of cameos) and Angelo's chats with pregnant wife Rosanna (Michaela Ramazzotti), the patients become acquainted, and before long they mutually regress to goofy, teenage behaviour and begin swapping confidences.
Angelo develops a deep-seated level of respect and admiration for Alberto - enough that he begins to perceive the writer as someone who can provide for Rosanna and the kids after his own death - and Alberto, who has seldom been close to anyone, develops a real sense of what friendship means for the first time in his life.
Release Date : 20 Aug 2010