Rating: R
Genre:
Comedy Drama
Theatrical Release: 03/28/2008(USA
Release Date: 08/05/2008
SubTitles: English
Dubbed: Italian
Sound: DD5.1/DDS2.0
Run Time: 104 Minutes
Flags: Violence, Nudity, Profanity, Sexual Situations
Distributor/Studio: Velocity / Thinkfilm
Growing up in small-town Italy during the '60s and '70s, brothers
Accio (
Elio Germano) and
Manrico (
Riccardo Scamarcio) embody and celebrate opposing
political stances, but share an impassioned love of the same woman that threatens to drive them to blows. Director
Daniele Luchetti's
political comedy Mio Fratello È Figlio Unico (aka
My Brother Is an Only Child, 2007) observes the brothers over the course of 15 years, against the ever-shifting backdrop of tumultuous Italian sociopolitical history. During that time span, the siblings' loyalties will fluctuate; they will endure arguments and quarrels, and find themselves separated by the ravages of time and circumstance and reunited magnetically by the wisdom of age. In time, they will come to a firmer and clearer understanding of not only the differences but the similarities that they harbor.
~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide