Good News

Good News

1979 · 102 min · ★ 6.2 · Comedy, Drama

A disaffected media executive spends his days watching violent programming on the television screens in his office and his evenings neglecting his frustrated wife at home. The monotonicity is disturbed when he is contacted by an old friend who confides in him he is being threatened by mysterious assassins.

Directed by Elio Petri · Written by Elio Petri

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