Life Is a Wonderful Thing

Life Is a Wonderful Thing

Directed by Carlo Vanzina

Produced by International Video 80, Medusa Film

2010103 min5.5 / 10

A multi-threaded ensemble comedy about interconnected lives marked by deception and love, ultimately affirming life's value despite its complications.

A policeman who spies on the lives of others, an important banker married to a housewife who poses as a noblewoman. A precarious young masseuse and an electrician madly in love. Very different lives that end up intertwining. But also extremely complicated and troubled lives ... Even if, after all, life is a wonderful thing ...

Questions people ask

  • Is Life Is a Wonderful Thing easy watching? Somewhat. More comforting than 71% of films.

  • Does Life Is a Wonderful Thing end with hope? Somewhat. More hopeful than 65% of films.

  • Is Life Is a Wonderful Thing violent? Not especially. Less violent than 64% of films.

  • Is Life Is a Wonderful Thing sad? Somewhat. More sad than 61% of films.

  • Is Life Is a Wonderful Thing scary? About average. Almost exactly mid-range.

These describe how the film comes across, measured across the whole film and compared with other well-known films. They are not a content list — nothing here was counted or checked scene by scene, so for age-suitability or specific content use a classification board or a dedicated content-warning service.

16/ 100

Cinnamon Score

How much this film gives you that nothing else will, and whether it delivers.

Conventional, and it does not land.

Rarity50

How unlike any other film this one feels

Surprise4

How much more it delivers than it promises

Love8

How much audiences actually like it

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Similar, pushed toward heavier and more intense.

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Similar, pushed toward warmer and easier.

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Same territory, far fewer people have seen it.

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