Stubborn Fate

Stubborn Fate

1992 · 93 min · ★ 5.1 · Comedy

Carolina Rambaldi isn't fulfilled by her three children: Marcello, a lazy do-nothing, Lucrezia, a bossy type who produces a TV show, and Cesare, homosexual and malicious, who's a sociologist. When she writes her will, Carolina leaves her property to the one child who's married and had a child in the past year and a half.

Directed by Gianfranco Albano · Written by Francesco Costa

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