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Where's Picone? (1983)

Where's Picone? poster
Original title
Mi manda Picone
Directed by
Nanni Loy
Genre
comedy film
Country
Italy
Runtime
2h 02m
Rating
6.8 of 10 from 33 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A man mysteriously disappears from a work accident. His wife hires a local con man to find him, leading to a comic investigation into corruption and bureaucracy in Naples.

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What happens

Where's Picone? (Italian: Mi manda Picone, also known as Picone Sent Me) is a 1983 Italian comedy film directed by Nanni Loy. Although selected as the Italian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 57th Academy Awards, it was not nominated. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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