I Can Quit Whenever I Want

Smetto quando voglio

Italy’s biggest comedy hit about a bunch of broke academics who decide to do a ‘Breaking Bad’ and enter the drug manufacture and dealing business.

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Director Sydney Sibilia
Producer Domenico Procacci
Screenwriter Valerio Attanasio, Andrea Garello, Sydney Sibilia
With Edoardo Leo, Valeria Solarino, Stefano Fresi
Italy 2014
100 mins
Sales Fandango

The most popular Italian comedy of 2014 is the hilarious tale of a group of down-at-heel university professors who decide to set up their own drug dealing business. A kind of comic Breaking Bad (except our gang of misfit academics only wants to sell drugs based on yet to be banned ingredients), it reflects the real life situation of highly educated people currently downtrodden and disenfranchised in Italy’s dysfunctional economy. Yet, whilst Sidney Silbilla’s smart debut undoubtedly has a topical edge to it, at the end of the day this is a rousing, farcical story adroitly plotting the comic misadventures of our naïve ‘entrepreneurs’ as they run foul of those on both sides of the law.

Adrian Wootton