What a Beautiful Day (film)

What a Beautiful Day
Directed by	Gennaro Nunziante
Starring	Checco Zalone
Release date(s)	5 January 2011 (2011-01-05) (Italy)
Running time	97 minutes
Country	Italy
Language	Italian
Box office	€42,783,638[1] (Italy only) ($63,649,173)

What a Beautiful Day (Italian: Che bella giornata) is a 2011 Italian film directed by Gennaro Nunziante starring Checco Zalone.

Plot

Checco, a guy who works as a bouncer at a nightclub in Brianza, dreams of becoming a policeman, like his uncle Joseph Capobianco, but for a series of funny circumstances, is rejected at the interview with Colonel Gismondo Mazzini three times in a year. But thanks to a recommendation of the Archbishop of Milan, he finds himself working as a security officer at the Cathedral: here, at work (not quite done in the best way), knows Farah, an Arab girl who pretends to be a student of architecture to have access to Madonna, at whose feet actually meditates to deposit an explosive device with the help of his brother and two other accomplices Sofien Arab terrorists to avenge the killing of her family in a bombing unspecified. He became guardian of the Virgin Mary, Checco immediately hooked bait Farah, he Puglia Taranto mother and her "French mother Bina" (North African), but not what the guy imagine is that the greatest threat to the next and the Italian artistic heritage is represented by the same Checco. Farah, however, refuses to carry out his plan through his friendship and humanity shown by Checco and his family forced to return to his country, delivery Checco that the suitcase would contain the bomb, but there is no (in case there is only one model of the house Checco, which conceals the activation mechanism of the bomb), because the girl he left in a dilapidated property trullo Checco, inherited from the grandfather of Alberobello (for the that demolition was necessary and he € 10,000, triggering the bomb and making it explode, has solved the problem).

Reception

The film was met with high commercial success. In just its second week, it reached $42.2 million in box-office revenue, topping Life Is Beautiful to set the all-time national earnings record for an Italian film. In its opening weekend, the comedy surpassed Avatar for the most sales in the first 3 days of release, reaching $9.4 million.^[2]

References

1. ^ "Beautiful Day' now Italy's most successful film (Reuters)". 2011-01-17. http://movies.yahoo.com/news/movies.reuters.com/beautiful-day-now-italys-most-successful-film-reuters;_ylt=Aum8dmAlSBH4cqSPXkDsWoFfVXcA. 
2. ^ "Beautiful Day' now Italy's most successful film (Reuters)". 2011-01-17. http://movies.yahoo.com/news/movies.reuters.com/beautiful-day-now-italys-most-successful-film-reuters;_ylt=Aum8dmAlSBH4cqSPXkDsWoFfVXcA. 

External links

• Che Bella giornata at the Internet Movie Database