The Monster (Blu-ray) R
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Blu-ray Disc Features:
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 31 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: October 8, 2019
- Originally Released: 1994
- Label: KL Studio Classics
- Note: Audio Commentary by Film Historian and Critic Peter Tonguette
- Theatrical Trailer
- Aspect Ratio: Widescreen - 1.66
- Audio:
- DTS HD Master Audio - Italian
- Subtitles - English
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Roberto Benigni, Michel Blanc & Nicoletta Braschi | |
Performer: | Massimo Girotti, Ivano Marescotti, Jean-Claude Brialy & Dominique Lavanant | |
Directed by | Roberto Benigni | |
Edited by | Nino Baragli & Franco Fraticelli | |
Screenplay by | Roberto Benigni | |
Composition by | Evan Lurie | |
Story by | Roberto Benigni & Vincenzo Cerami | |
Produced by | Yves Attal & Roberto Benigni | |
Director of Photography: | Carlo Di Palma | |
Executive Production by | Elda Ferri |
Memorable Quotes and Dialog:
"This man is a genius. He's the Mozart of vice."
- Taccone (Michel Blanc) to female officers
"We must catch the monster with his hand in the cookie jar and you must play the cookie."--Chief of Police (Laurent Spielvogel) to Jessica (Nicoletta Braschi
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"You're a flower for a hungry bee. The pistil beckons, then retracts, forbidding the honey. It will be a perverse war, a lustful duel, day and night. An obscene bombardment."
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"You're a flower for a hungry bee. The pistil beckons, then retracts, forbidding the honey. It will be a perverse war, a lustful duel, day and night. An obscene bombardment."
- Taccone to Jessica
"Do you know what we call this 'nothing strange'' Preurgic cathartic empathy."
- Taccone to Jessica
Entertainment Reviews:
Los Angeles Times - 04/19/1996
"...Benigni is so gifted he makes every scenario he touches inevitably funny....Benigni creates hysteria whenever he appears..."
"...Benigni is so gifted he makes every scenario he touches inevitably funny....Benigni creates hysteria whenever he appears..."
Product Description:
The rubber-faced Roberto Benigni, Italy's most beloved slapstick comic, stars in THE MONSTER as Loris, a bumbling con man whose everyday activities consist of shoplifting from the local supermarket and preventing anyone from buying the apartment he is squatting in. Suspected of being a vicious rapist, he is seduced by a voluptuous female cop (Nicoletta Braschi, Benigni's wife in real life) who hopes to overstimulate his sexual urges and catch him in the act of committing a crime. A comedy of misidentification like Benigni's box-office smash JOHNNY STECCHINO, THE MONSTER features Benigni doing his best imitation of the innocent everyman pioneered by Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton. Whether it's dropping a cigarette down his pants or dealing with an out-of-control chain saw, Benigni is all arms, legs, and statically charged hair. Once censured by the pope, Benigni pushes the edge in risqué scenes with his wife, who spends much of the movie gamely thrusting her pelvis and chest in front of Loris. THE MONSTER is a great introduction to a comic whose jokes, it is said, contributed to the downfall of an Italian prime minister.
Plot Synopsis:
In THE MONSTER, Roberto Benigni is a hapless bush-league grifter who must clear his name when the local Joe Fridays pin the rap for a series of murders on him. Naturally, hilarity ensues.
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Production Notes:
- After its initial release in Italy, IL MOSTRO smashed Italian box office records. It was bested by TITANIC a few years later.
- A remake of THE MONSTER starring Tom Green is being made by Spyglass Entertainment.

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