It’s the Law

Jan 19, 2017

1h 28m

★ 6.6

Overview

A small Sicilian town elects a new, honest major but quickly learns that playing by the rules is not as easy as it seems.

Genres

Comedy

Production Companies

Medusa Film

Tramp Limited

It’s the Law Trailers

Cast

Salvatore "Salvo"

Salvatore Ficarra

Valentino "Vale"

Valentino Picone

Pierpaolo Natoli

Vincenzo Amato

Gaetano Patanè

Tony Sperandeo

Don Raffaele

Leo Gullotta

vigile Gianni

Sergio Friscia

vigile urbano

Antonio Catania

carabiniere Gaetano

Gaetano Bruno

Betty Natoli

Eleonora De Luca

Francesca Natoli

Ersilia Lombardo

parcheggiatore Vittorio

Francesco Benigno

politico romano

Alessandro Roja

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6.8

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Dec 16, 1987

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7.3

Johnny Stecchino

Oct 24, 1991

Good hearted but not very wordly-wise, Dante is happy driving the school bus for a group of mentally handicapped children, while feeling he is somehow missing out on life and love. So he is very excited when after nearly being knocked down by her car he meets Maria, who seems immediately enamoured of him. He is soon invited to her sumptuous Palermo villa, little suspecting that this is part of a plot. He bears an amazing likeness to Maria's stool-pigeon gangster husband and it would be convenient for them if the mobster, in the shape of Dante, was seen to be dead and buried.

7.0

Support Your Local Sheriff!

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6.3

The Toxic Avenger

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A gang of thugs devise a cruel hoax that goes horribly wrong as Melvin, a nerdy emaciated janitor at the local health club, is cast through a third story window into a vat of hazardous toxic waste.

7.9

Herod's Law

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6.8

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7.2

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5.3

Hope Springs

May 9, 2003

British artist Colin Ware discovers that his fiancée, Vera, is going to marry another man. Distraught and despondent, he gets on a plane for America and ends up in the tiny town of Hope in New England. At first, Colin is depressed, but he soon finds more than a shoulder to cry on when his innkeepers introduce him to Mandy, a beautiful nurse. All's going well and Colin has almost forgotten his old flame until Vera shows up with a surprise of her own.

5.0

Le inibizioni del dottor Gaudenzi, vedovo col complesso della buonanima

Dec 3, 1971

Doctor Gaudenzi, a real Sicilian manly man living in Rome, Italy, married the daughter of a wealthy industrialist. One day, his wife is about to die, and being very religious, she asks for a cardinal to perform the last rites and further demands that her husband pledges not to marry or be with other women after she dies. Constrained by the cardinal's presence, Gaudenzi promises, and she promptly dies. Later, as soon as he is about to fall in temptation when looking at sexy girls, strange things happen, finally convincing him that his jealous wife is watching from "out there". Gaudenzi decides to give up on his lusty life: he's returning to his Sicily home and, to be on the sure side, he asks to be injected with female hormones. That's when he meets a sexy woman no man can resist...

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0.0

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6.9

Rango

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6.8

Nati stanchi

Mar 1, 2002

Salvo and Valentino are two happy Sicilian friends, who do not want to work, because they know that if they find a permanent job, their girlfriends will ask them to marry them.

6.9

Neither Seen Nor Recognized

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5.8

Turk 182!

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7.1

Hail the Conquering Hero

Aug 9, 1944

Having been discharged from the Marines for a hayfever condition before ever seeing action, Woodrow Lafayette Pershing Truesmith delays the return to his hometown, feeling that he is a failure. While in a moment of melancholy, he meets up with a group of Marines who befriend him and encourage him to return home to his mother by fabricating a story that he was wounded in battle with honorable discharge.

6.3

Let's Go to the Country

Nov 6, 2014

Valentino and Salvo, unemployed and in search of fortune and recommendation, leave Palermo for Valentino’s home town, Monteforte, where they will try to survive the Italian crisis by opening some sort of hospice.

5.5

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