# Fun Is Beautiful

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{{Infobox film
 | name = Fun Is Beautiful<br>(Un sacco bello)
 | image =Fun Is Beautiful.jpg
 | caption =
 | director = [Carlo Verdone](/source/Carlo_Verdone)
 | writer = [Leonardo Benvenuti](/source/Leonardo_Benvenuti)<br /> [Piero De Bernardi](/source/Piero_De_Bernardi)<br /> Carlo Verdone 
 | starring = {{plainlist|
*[Carlo Verdone](/source/Carlo_Verdone)
*Veronica Miriel
*[Mario Brega](/source/Mario_Brega)
*[Renato Scarpa](/source/Renato_Scarpa)
}} 
 | music = [Ennio Morricone](/source/Ennio_Morricone)
 | cinematography = [Ennio Guarnieri](/source/Ennio_Guarnieri)
 | editing =  [Eugenio Alabiso](/source/Eugenio_Alabiso)
 | language = Italian 
 | country = Italy
 | runtime = 97 minutes
 | producer = Romano Caldarelli <br/> [Sergio Leone](/source/Sergio_Leone)
 | released = {{Film date|1980}}
 }}

'''''Un sacco bello''''', internationally released as '''''Fun Is Beautiful''''', is a 1980 Italian [comedy film](/source/comedy_film). The film, produced by [Sergio Leone](/source/Sergio_Leone), marked the directorial debut of [Carlo Verdone](/source/Carlo_Verdone), as well his debut as main actor and as screenwriter.<ref name=Mereghetti>{{cite book|last=Paolo Mereghetti|title=Il Mereghetti|publisher=B.C. Dalai Editore, 2010|isbn=88-6073-626-9}}</ref><ref name="90-00 M-Z">{{cite book|author1=Roberto Chiti |author2=Enrico Lancia |author3=Roberto Poppi |title=Dizionario del cinema italiano: I Film|publisher=Gremese Editore, 2002|isbn=8884401372}}</ref><ref name=mss>{{cite book|last=Enrico Magrelli|title=Carlo Verdone: l'insostenibile leggerezza della malinconia|year=2010|publisher=Besa, 2010|isbn=978-8849706925}}</ref> For this film Verdone won a special [David di Donatello Awards](/source/David_di_Donatello) and the [Nastro d'Argento](/source/Nastro_d'Argento) for best new actor.<ref name=premi>{{cite book|last=Enrico Lancia|title=I premi del cinema|year=1998|publisher=Gremese Editore, 1998|isbn=8877422211}}</ref>

== Plot ==
[Carlo Verdone](/source/Carlo_Verdone) plays three roles in three episodes joined together. In the first, the Roman hick Enzo organizes a trip to [Poland](/source/Polish_People's_Republic) for [Ferragosto](/source/Ferragosto), hoping to ingratiate himself with the sexual favors of some beautiful Polish girl with the help of a generous supply of [nylon stocking](/source/nylon_stocking)s (in those years considered a luxury commodity in countries behind the [Iron Curtain](/source/Iron_Curtain)). In the second episode, the post-[hippie](/source/hippie) Ruggero by some days in his native Rome, while at the traffic light distributing leaflets and asking for an offer of money for a new [commune](/source/Intentional_community) that his group is forming in [Citta della Pieve](/source/Citta_della_Pieve), meets his father ([Mario Brega](/source/Mario_Brega)) by chance, in the middle of traffic. His father believes that the guy has psychological problems, and so he asks the help of a priest, a teacher and a very problematic nephew. Mr. Mario then is going to change the mentality of the guy with the help of these wise people, in the hope that Ruggero and his girlfriend (who is also a [flower child](/source/flower_child)) find themselves the right way to live in a modern society. Finally, the shy and awkward Leo find the love in a Spanish girl, but she gives him a lot of problems. In fact, she is not alone and intends to recover an affair with her ex.

== Cast ==
*[Carlo Verdone](/source/Carlo_Verdone): Enzo/Ruggero/Leo/Don Alfio/Anselmo/professor 
*[Mario Brega](/source/Mario_Brega): Mario  
*[Renato Scarpa](/source/Renato_Scarpa): Sergio
*[Veronica Miriel](/source/Veronica_Miriel): Marisol
*[Isabella De Bernardi](/source/Isabella_De_Bernardi): Fiorenza
*[Sandro Ghiani](/source/Sandro_Ghiani): Cristiano

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*{{IMDb title|0079839}}

{{Carlo Verdone}}
{{Sergio Leone}}

Category:1980 films
Category:Italian comedy films
Category:Films directed by Carlo Verdone
Category:1980 comedy films
Category:Films scored by Ennio Morricone
Category:Films produced by Sergio Leone
Category:1980 directorial debut films
Category:1980 Italian-language films
Category:1980 Italian films
Category:Italian-language comedy films

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