When he becomes a grandfather for the first time, a middle aged married Italian businessman (Vittorio Gassman) begins to feel life is passing him by. He embarks on an affair with an 18 year old vixen (Ann-Margret) but what started out as a fling becomes complicated when the affair turns serious and she insists he make a choice. It's either her or his wife (Eleanor Parker) and family. Directed by Dino Risi, this tedious Italian sex comedy becomes quite annoying after awhile. Not only does Gassman's character sleep with Ann-Margret but he sleeps with her mother too! Meanwhile, Parker is so desperate to keep her husband that she looks the other way and pretends nothing is going on, better to have an unfaithful husband than no husband at all. Are we supposed to have empathy for these people? It must be an Italian thing. Gassman even won the David Di Donatello best actor award (the Italian Oscar) for his performance here. Ann-Margret takes time out from the adultery frolics to bump and grind to 60s Italian pop and body paint a dress on herself. With Eleonora Brown (the daughter in De Sica's
TWO WOMEN) and Giambattista Salerno.
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