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Bookmark this pageVices in the Family (1975)
Director: Mariano Laurenti
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From Time Out Film Guide
An incomprehensible black comedy (any charm it may have had has gone in the dubbing and cutting of the version released in Britain), this concerns the cack-handed efforts of a group of scheming ladies to relieve a dying Count of his fortune. It borrows shamelessly from Polanski's What?, and throws in a few nods towards Pasolini, but basically attempts no more than a bit of absent-minded titillation. Laurenti directs as though he were being paid by the minute, and the result is a crashing bore.Author: VG
Cast & crew
Director: Mariano Laurenti
Producer: Gianfranco Couyoumdjian
Cast: Edwige Fenech, Renzo Montagnani, Juliette Mayniel, Susan Scott, Gigi Ballista, Roberto Cenci full cast
Genre(s): Comedy
Duration: 94 mins
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