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Le comiche is a 1990 Italian comedy film written and directed by Neri Parenti and starring Renato Pozzetto and Paolo Villaggio. It had two sequels, Le comiche 2 (1991) and Le nuove comiche (1994).
Plot
Neri Parenti creates some comic episodes, inserting various gags taken from films of the past: Laurel and Hardy, Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton. In the silent black and white prologue two railroad workers, Paolo and Renato, are trying to outrun a steam train and jump out of the screen into a movie theatre; in the first episode they are bungling painters who ruin a wedding; in the second the two friends destroy a gas station; in the third episode they are forced to work in the mountain chalet, ruining the holiday for all customers; in the last the two friends are the perfect double of two fierce mafia, who plan to use the "twins" for a suicide mission; in the epilogue Paolo and Renato are chased by characters of all the episodes back into the silent film.
Cast
Renato Pozzetto as Renato
Paolo Villaggio as Paolo
Fabio Traversa as Mario
Alessandra Casella as Domitilla
Gian as Amilcare
Tiziana Pini as Amilcare's wife
Enzo Cannavale as the priest
Sal Borgese as the gas station attendant
Renato D'Amore as the innkeeper
Giovanni Cianfriglia as the trucker
Ennio Antonelli as the pizza chef
Andrea Belfiore as the stripper at the nightclub
Pierfrancesco Villaggio as the bodyguard
Franca Scagnetti as a guest at the wedding
See also
List of Italian films of 1990
https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Le_comiche
References
External links
Le comiche at IMDb
Le comiche at ANICA, Archiviodelcinemaitaliano.it