Casotto (1977)

User Rating:

6.0/10   

Director:

Sergio Citti

Writers:

Vincenzo Cerami (screenplay)
Vincenzo Cerami (story)

Release Date:

28 October 1977 (Italy)

Genre:

Comedy

Plot:

Una domenica estiva in uno stabilimento balneare al Lido di Ostia (Roma). Una fauna umana variegata e tante storie che si intrecciano...

Plot Keywords:

Beach | Nudity | Topless | Beautiful Woman | Female Nudity

Cast

Clara Algranti	...	Iole
McKenzie Bailey	...	Il prete
Gino Barzacchi	...	Il fusto
Massimo Bonetti	...	Soldato culturista
Flora Carabella	...	La nonna (as Flora Mastroianni)
Franco Citti	...	Nando
Carlo Croccolo	...	Carlo
Ninetto Davoli	...	Fotografo
Catherine Deneuve	...	Donna del sogno
Jodie Foster	...	Teresina Fedeli
Cathy Marchand	...	Ketty (as Katy Marchand)
Marco Marsili	...	Il nipotino
Anna Melato	...	Bice
Mariangela Melato	...	Giulia
Michele Placido	...	Vincenzino
Gigi Proietti	...	Gigi
Gianni Rizzo	...	L'allenatore
Franca Scagnetti	...	Donna grassa
Julia Sebastyan	...	Gloria (as Julie Sebestyen)
Paolo Stoppa	...	Il nonno
Ugo Tognazzi	...	Alfredo Cerquetti
Gianrico Tondinelli	...	Paracadutista

Also Known As:

Beach House (International: English title)
The Beach Hut

Runtime:

106 min

Country:

Italy

Language:

Italian

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Netherlands:16 (original rating) | Italy:VM14

Filming Locations:

Beach, Ostia, Rome, Lazio, Italy

Company:

Parva Cinematografica

Let me outta here!

While many people when they were young might have fantasized about spying on attractive members of the opposite sex as they changed clothes in one of those changing rooms along the beach, actually being stuck in one of these rooms for 90 minutes and having to spy on EVERYONE who comes in is a different thing entirely. The characters in this movie are no more physically appealing than your average beach-goer (one is literally a mutant), and they are even more annoying. The funniest characters are Jodie Foster's grandparents. In one of those wacky Italian scenarios they're trying to foist their already-pregnant granddaughter on some unsuspecting guy who'll then obliged to marry her. Why they'd choose any of the morons in this movie though is beyond me. The worst characters are two idiotic, ugly-looking guys (dubbed with Brooklyn accents) who have unaccountably picked up two reasonably attractive girls (who just want someone to buy them lunch?!), but then one of them gets hit in the head with a canoe (don't ask) and spends the rest of the movie dreaming about sheep, naked women, and Catherine Denueve (in what has to be her most pathetic role). I can think of only three reasons why someone would enjoy this movie: you're a fan of Italian sex comedy (hello? anyone?), you want to leer at a barely pubescent Jodie Foster (have they released John Hinckley from the mental institution yet?), or you want to see some really unattractive people naked. Everyone else should stay out of the casotto.