Parents in Progress (2019)

5.9/10 • 87 min • Comedy

Overview

Simona is a single mother in her early ‘40s who is wholly devoted to her son, Filippo. To get over her insecurities as a parent and make her son happy on his eighth birthday, she decides to throw him a birthday party in their small flat and invite over his school friends and their parents. For Simona, this birthday is about to pose quite the surprising dilemma between allowing her son to embrace his true self and a mother’s fierce desire to protect her child from their potentially cruel surroundings. This is the last conundrum she was expecting to have to face on a day that is already rife with anxiety.

Cast

Anna Foglietta

Simona

Paolo Calabresi

Aldo

Marina Rocco

Sabrina

Elena Radonicich

Giorgia

Francesco Turbanti

Cesare

Paolo Mazzarelli

Alessandro

Marina Occhionero

Luisa

Lucia Mascino

Ilaria

Erika Blanc

Valeria Barreca

Maddalena

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