Cafe Express (1980)
Directed by Nanni Loy
Genres - Comedy |
Sub-Genres - Parody/Spoof, Workplace Comedy |
Run Time - 89 min. |
Countries - Italy |
MPAA Rating - NR
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Synopsis by Eleanor Mannikka
This entertaining, light comedy is carried on the shoulders of Nino Manfredi, who plays a gypsy coffee vendor illegally selling expresso on trains. Inventive, creative, and needing to stay several steps ahead of the conductors and other bureaucrats out to shut down his operation, the cafe artist often finds himself hiding out in the most unusual places. He needs the money because his young, asthmatic son needs medical attention. That fact casts no shadow on the comedy though, as the coffee vendor continues to dodge his pursuers toward what must surely be an upbeat ending for all concerned.
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asthma, coffee, comedy, Italy, medical-expense, money, son, train [locomotive], vendor