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MPAA Rating: R Content Advisory: Nudity, Adult Situations, Questionable for Children, Adult Language Movie Release: 1972 DVD Release: 07/15/2003 Format: DVD - Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV - Closed Captioned Audio Tracks: English, French Subtitles: English, French, Spanish SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 2 hrs 24 mins Studio: MGM Members Wishing: 2 Genres: Comedy, Romantic Comedy

This enchanting yet dark romantic comedy stars Jack Lemmon and Juliet Mills as a pair of mismatched lovers helplessly drawn into a series of seemingly hopeless but humorous situations as in Lemmon's The Out-of -Towners two years earlier. Lemmon is Wendell Armbruster Jr., an overbearing American business tycoon forced to travel to the beautiful Italian island of Ischia to claim the body of his recently departed father. What begins with a rather elementary premise evolves into a succession of somber twists and turns, as Armbruster meets Pamela Piggott (Mills), the daughter of his father's mistress, who, Lemmon is appalled to learn, died alongside Armbruster Sr., while zipping through the Italian countryside in his sportscar. Even worse, the family who owns the vineyard that his father's car crashed into has stolen the bodies in exchange for damages. Although plagued with a plethora of such problems, as well as an inability to enjoy life (and the ulcers to prove it), Wendell eventually falls in love with Pamela, almost exactly as his father did with her mother. ~ Don Kaye, All Movie Guide

Jack Lemmon - Wendell Armbruster
Juliet Mills - Pamela Pigott
Clive Revill - Carlo Carlucci
Edward Andrews - J.J. Blodgett
Gianfranco Barra - Bruno
Franco Acampora - Armando Trotta
Lino Coletta - Cipriani
Raffaele Mottola - Passport Officer

MGM releases of classic Billy Wilder films continues with the 1972 effort Avanti! Presented on DVD with a crisp color transfer, the film's original widescreen image is intact, as are the original promotional trailers. Closed-captioning rounds out the disc's features. ~ Michael Hastings, All Movie Guide