Publisher's Synopsis
Five young men linger in post-adolescent limbo dreaming of adventure and escape from their small seacoast town. They while away their time spending the lira doled out by their indulgent families on drink; women; and nights at the local pool hall. Federico Fellini's second solo directorial effort (originally released in the U.S. as The Young and the Passionate) is a semi-autobiographical masterpiece of sharply drawn character sketches: Skirt-chaser Fausto; forced to marry a girl he has impregnated; Alberto; the perpetual child; Leopoldo; a writer; thirsting for fame; and Moraldo; the only member of the group troubled by a moral conscience. An international success and recipient of an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay; I Vitelloni compassionately details a year in the life of small-town layabouts struggling to find meaning in their lives.
