Natale a New York

Natale a New York (English Translation: Christmas in New York) is a 2006 Italian comedy film directed by Neri Parenti, with Christian De Sica and Massimo Ghini. It is the first film made by Neri Parenti after the artistic separation between Christian De Sica and Massimo Boldi. It earned $4,138,363 USD its first weekend and has earned over $26,293,647 USD since, proving to be a great success at the box office. According to Filmauro: "Natale a New York earned US $36,000.000 and was the highest box office result for the 2006 Christmas holidays.".
The film was never released in the US and to this date has not yet been released with either English subtitles or distributed in Region 1 format for DVD or Blu-ray Disc play in the US. A Special Edition double DVD in PAL format (DVD Region 2) was also released sometime in 2007 in Italy and Europe containing not only the feature film but a second DVD containing extra behind the scenes footage, five deleted scenes, video from the Premier Event in Italy as well as two 'TV Spot' Trailers. To date this film has not been released on the Blu-ray Disc format.
==Plot==
During the Christmas holidays, three groups of funny characters depart from Italy to spend the Christmas holiday season in New York City. Camillo (Lillo for short played by Christian De Sica) is a penniless pianist who has the fortune of marrying a rich woman named Milena (Fiorenza Marchegiani). However Lillo, although happy living in comfort with his wife and beautiful dependent daughter Carlotta (Elisabetta Canalis), is still in love with Barbara (Sabrina Ferilli), a beautiful Roman uneducated peasant with whom he had dated years earlier. He must be careful not to break his prenuptial agreement demanded by his father-in-law before he could marry Milena and gain access to her vast fortune. Should he be untrue to Milena he could lose all his marital gains and return to being a poor Musician. A chance meeting reunites Lillo and Barbara and they resume their affair in secret. Barbara, however, is now married to Claudio (Massimo Ghini), a wealthy Doctor, who is also having a secret affair and is in love with Lillo's daughter Carlotta.
Dr. Severino Benci (Claudio Bisio) ships his assistant Filippo Vessato (Fabio De Luigi) to New York with a mandate to deliver an expensive and rare antique Medical Parchment as a gift to his son Francesco (Francesco Mandelli), who studies in the same university in New York City his father graduated from years earlier. Filippo is also to be married that week in New York and is dismayed that his boss, the Doctor, would send him on such a distracting task. But Francesco is a pleasure-loving slacker who doesn't attend classes and partakes in recreational drugs and hosts large parties for his friends. Filippo becomes corrupted by both Francesco and his cousin and fellow underachieving student Paolo Benci (Paolo Ruffini) during this short visit in order to complete his task. He is having fun with them and falls in love with a beautiful College Cheerleader Girl named Sylvia during a psychedelic induced episode at one of Francesco's parties. Filippo ends up covering for the delinquent students and tells Dr. Benci a lie that his son is to receive the 'Student Of The Year' achievement award but Dr. Benci comes to New York to see for himself and soon suspects something is wrong. But Filippo is to marry the love of his life in the days to come... Christmas in New York leads to some more surprises for all parties involved as their lives and situations intersect and crash during their Christmas holiday in New York.
==Cast==
*Christian De Sica as Camillo "Lillo" Ferri
*Sabrina Ferilli as Barbara Ricacci
*Massimo Ghini as Claudio Ricacci
*Fabio De Luigi as Filippo Vessato
*Paolo Ruffini as Paolo Benci
*Francesco Mandelli as Francesco Benci
*Alessandro Siani as Lello
*Claudio Bisio as Dott. Severino Benci
*Elisabetta Canalis as Carlotta Ferri
*Fiorenza Marchegiani as Milena Ferri
*Amanda Gabbard as Mary
*Erika J. Othen as Sylvia
*Pamela Paul as Mary's mother
*Roy Yeager as Mary's father
*Jesse Buckler as Director Roosevelt Hotel
*Eric Bright as George
*William J. Vila as the taxi driver
*Bob Senkewicz as the Doctor
*Michael Muldoon as Detective John Palmer
*Peter Stoehr as priest
*Ting Zhang as cheerleader #1 (uncredited)
*Poofy as the small white dog
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