“Family has a price”, the new romantic comedy that came to Netflix

Family comedies continue to reign on Netflix and to show the new bet of the entertainment service that is titled family has a price. Italian production is directed by Giovanni Bognetti and seeks to explore what happens when a couple of parents, feeling the absence and abandonment of their two children, take drastic measures to keep them close to them.

The film is a new version of the French comedy The price of parenthood and features Christian De Sica and Angela Finocchiaro as the aforementioned parents, Carlo and Anna. Dharma Mangia Woods and Claudio Colica play their adult children, Alessandra and Emilio, while Fioretta Mari appears as the overly cynical grandmother of the family.

The new production uses the context of a broken family to build a light and unpretentious comedy, in which the classic generational clash leads to the inevitable final reconciliation. This feature film adds a more bittersweet tone than the French original, since it moves to another culture, environment and, above all, the tone of the project becomes that of a comedy with a lot of drama.

family has a price It begins with parents, Carlo and Anna, saying goodbye to their two adult children as they move to Rome, leaving home and loved ones behind. Her daughter, Alessandra, is going to live with her dentist boyfriend, Rocco (Francesco Marioni), while her brother, Emilio, starts working in an office where he is poorly paid and has a boss who despise.

To the mother’s chagrin, after moving, both brothers spend less and less time with their parents and stop attending family gatherings. They don’t show up to an aunt’s funeral, make promises to visit that they never keep, and even ignore their phone calls simply because they don’t feel like talking to them. Everything gets worse when young people decide not to spend Christmas with their parents.

Having had enough of being ignored by their children, Anna and Carlo claim that the late aunt left the youngsters a sizeable inheritance. Strange as it may seem, the plan works and as soon as they hear the news, Alessandra and Emilio go to their old house. After the lie, mother and father must act as if they were rich now and spend a lot of money. The plan is to keep the charade going until Christmas.

The film written and directed by Giovanni Bognetti is the Italian version of Three children’s monththe French comedy by Alexandra Leclère and seeks to show and analyze without much pretense the current generational clash that exists between parents and children and that is a situation with which the viewer can identify.

The entire narrative of the film focuses on the bitter family battle that has been going on for years and that becomes more and more recurring with the passage of time: children who forget their parents once they leave home. The film in a comic way, but at the same time crude and dramatic, captures a sector of young people who are ungrateful and insensitive to their parents.

You can see family has a price via Netflix.

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