Number 132 on IMDb's Top 250
Antonio Ricci, unemployed for over two years, is overjoyed when he's finally given a job putting up posters. There's a catch, though - he needs a bicycle as a requirement of the job, so he pawns the family linen to get a pawned bicycle back. He goes off to his first day's work, truly happy for the first time in years - and the title of the film gives away what happens next...then hilarity ensues.
Trivia: The actors in the film were all amateurs. Vittorio De Sica decided not to use professionals. There's a scene later in the movie where Bruno is nearly run over twice while crossing the street. This was absolutely unrehearsed - it was filmed on location and the two cars happened to pass by at that time.
Well, I didn't much care for this movie. It was slow paced and pretty much consistaned of the guy and his son walking around Rome looking for his bike. The guy gets more and more desperate and ends up doing something that really disappoints his son. Not my favorite by any means.
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