{{Short description|1980 comedy film}} {{Infobox film | name = | image = S-I Made a Splash.webp | caption = | director = Maurizio Nichetti | story= | writer = Maurizio Nichetti <br> Guido Manuli | starring =Maurizio Nichetti | music = Detto Mariano | cinematography = Mario Battistoni | editing = Giancarlo Rossi | producer = Franco Cristaldi <br> Nicola Carraro | distributor = Cineriz | released = {{Film date|1980}} | runtime = | country = Italy | language = Italian | budget = }} '''''I Made a Splash''''' ({{Langx|it|Ho fatto splash}}) is a 1980 comedy film co-written and directed by Maurizio Nichetti.
==Plot == In the 1950s, a child falls into a long sleep in front of the TV during a performance by Nilla Pizzi. He awakens in the early 1980s and must face an entirely changed world dominated by consumism and advertising.
== Cast ==
*Maurizio Nichetti as Maurizio * Luisa Morandini as Luisa *Angela Finocchiaro as Angela * Carlina Torta as Carlina * Daniel Bongiovanni as Mimi's son * Flavio Bonacci as photographer *Walter Valdi as robber *Ugo Bologna as customer * Massimo Sacelotti as Massimo * Guido Spadea as impresario * Lyall Crawford as English director * Renato Dondi as waiter *Giulia Lazzarini as Ariel *Corrado Lojacono as fireman * Enzo Radicchio as publicist * Manuela Blanchard as advertising girl * Mirella Falco as woman in church *Luis Molteni as man at reception
== Production == Principal photography started in May 1980.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Porro |first1=Maurizio |title=Nichetti ritenta il colpo: fa «splash » con quattro ragazze |work=Corriere della Sera|date=24 April 1980 |page=27}}</ref> The film was shot at Icet-De Paolis studios in Cinecittà.<ref name="bio">{{cite book |last1=Chiti |first1=Roberto |last2=Poppi |first2=Roberto |last3=Lancia |first3=Enrico |title=Dizionario del cinema italiano |date=1991 |publisher=Gremese Editore |isbn=978-88-7742-423-5 |page=304 |language=it |chapter=Ho fatto splash}}</ref>
== Reception == Piero Perona in ''La Stampa'' noted how the film, "rich in wit and style, consisted mainly of a revisiting of the silent cinema that directly inspired it", particularly Harry Langdon, Max Linder, Larry Semon and Charlie Chaplin.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Perona |first1=Piero |title=Sulle orme di Ratataplan |work=La Stampa |issue=280 |date=3 November 1980 |page=23}}</ref> According to Giovanni Grazzini from ''Corriere della Sera'', in this film Nichetti displayed a "a greater maturity in narrative structure but a more fragile inspiration" than in his debut film ''Ratataplan''.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Grazzini |first1=Giovanni |title=Nichetti e la generazione-splash |work=Corriere della Sera |date=1 November 1980 |page=19}}</ref> ''Cinema Nuovo'''s Ivo Franchi described the film as "structurally weak", with "flimsy characters" and comic situations he compared to TV variety show sketches.<ref name="bio" />
==References== {{Reflist}}
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{{Maurizio Nichetti}} {{Authority control}} Category:1980 films Category:1980 comedy films Category:1980 Italian films Category:Films about television Category:Films about advertising Category:Films directed by Maurizio Nichetti