故事发生在二战后经济萧条的意大利。贫穷且失去丈夫的莉莉安娜不得不跟儿子尼诺离开故乡博洛尼亚，搬到普利亚和已故丈夫的弟弟佐丹努住在一起。小叔子佐丹努年轻时曾经暗恋过莉莉安娜，她的到来使佐罗努旧情复燃，佐丹努的视线总是追随着漂亮的莉莉安娜，这严重搅乱了他原本平静的生活。佐丹努对莉莉安娜的这种无微不至的关怀引起了两位姑妈桑蒂娜和尤金尼娜强烈的妒恨，她们千方百计想赶母子出门……
Antonio and Beatrice are a married couple and she's pregnant. One night she feels like eating artichokes under oil and he hurries to the supermarket to buy them. Unfortunately he's hit on the head by a packet of sugar, loses his memory and vanishes into thin air. He reappears five years later unaware of the time passed but Beatrice has now taken up with another guy, an opera si...
Mario Cavallaro is a Milanese who has just turned fifty. One day, Oba, a Senegalese sock vendor, appearing with his wares right in front of Mario’s hosiery shop. In order to put things back, Mario decides to kidnap Oba simply to send him back home. Oba consents to his “deportation” under the condition that Mario also accompany his sister, Dalida, back home. Too bad for Mario is...
高速公路上的猫源于一句谚语，用来形容注定不会长久的事情。乔凡尼（安东尼奥·阿尔巴内斯 Antonio Albanese 饰）是那种典型的知识分子，每天读书看报认真思考人生，始终相信人和人之间能够拥有真正的信任，互相融合。莫妮卡（宝拉·柯特莱西 Paola Cortellesi 饰）和乔凡尼恰恰相反，身为超市收银员的她每天都要应付不同肤色和不同人种的客人们，常常感到焦头烂额，对人和人之间的沟通感到非常悲观。
上帝开了一个小小的玩笑，这两个八竿子打不到一起的人，他们的儿女却被牵上了红线走到了一起，得知了这一段恋情的两人由衷的希望它能像高速公路上的猫那样，尽早结束。
阿杜罗（卡洛·维尔多内 Carlo Verdone 饰）这个人混得很惨，差到只能追着逃跑的猫来赚钱。他现在住在他老年痴呆的姨妈家里。另一方面，尤里（安东尼奥·阿尔巴内斯 Antonio Albanese 饰）是一个舞台剧演员。自从与妻子分开后，他连自己的台词都记不住了，失去了工作，一文不名。
阿杜罗和尤里的相遇源于一项跟踪委托。尤里想要弄清楚前妻和情人之间的关系，于是委托阿杜罗跟踪和窃听。然而，他们所窃听到的并非证据，而是一段意义模糊的对话。正是这段对话引发了一系列离奇事件，使阿杜罗和尤里这个组合陷入了困境之中。
剧情梗概：
小猫卓巴终于迎来了自由
自在的日子，因为他的主人去
度假了。
一天，阳台上落下
了一只垂死的海鸥，还有蛋壳
里未孵出的小鸟，善良的卓巴
答应她照料小海鸥。小海鸥出
生了，卓巴和朋友们开始教他本
领，但不幸发生了，小海鸥
被綁架了……
Tells the story of Antonio, a former shipyard worker who leads a meek and quiet life: he plays boules with his friends, takes care of his elderly mother and has an ex-wife with whom he’s on excellent terms, as well as a beloved only daughter called Emilia. When Emilia announces that she has decided to get married, Antonio is overwhelmed with joy: he can finally fulfil his dream...
影片聲明不是影射愈貪腐愈紅的總統貝盧斯科尼，實情是此地無銀，將國家混帳重棍毆下去。話說某市選市長，一個廉潔的候選人冒出頭，賄情告急，滿身酒色財氣的大富商Cetto被推舉出來救火。他用炸彈宣佈參選，記招公開的政綱是窮人唔使理，選我有錢派。官商「民」大勾結上電視辯論，對手被隱形，Cetto只需廢o翕便贏得掌聲。一輪賄選運動之後，支持者由街頭排到街尾。你以為好誇張啊，不過加了點藝術手法而已，其實很寫實，連我們也覺熟口熟面。
from SUMMERIFF 2011
Amelia is a woman already advanced in years who lives alone and teaches at the embroidery school in the heart of a Southern Italian city, in the Fifties. Her life is closed in the circle of small and repeated habits, a daily reality of loneliness e melancholy. Then, one day a stranger breaks into her house to inform her that a man called Felice is invoking her name on his death...
失败的戏剧演员安东尼奥靠配音维持生计，一次机遇，他被任命去监狱开办戏剧课，他的戏剧魂再次点燃。意大利喜剧导演瑞卡多·米拉尼自编自导的新片，翻拍自法国喜剧《一出大戏》，根据瑞典戏剧大师扬·琼森近40年前的真实经历改编。以浓浓的意大利喜剧风格裹挟着这出悲喜交加的“失败者们”的故事，通过让他们排演名剧《等待戈多》，展现主角与5名个性鲜明囚犯间的笑料互动，更显激情四溢，以此向世人喊出：虽身陷囹圄，也可以用艺术解放自己。曾两次获封威尼斯影帝的喜剧明星安东尼奥·阿尔巴内斯大胆献“声”，精准拿捏喜剧与正剧间的表演。
