2016 Contemporary Italian Film Series: Smetto quando voglio (I Can Quit Whenever I Want)

The Italian Cultural and Community Center presents the 2016 Contemporary Italian Film Series.  The series screens at the Italian Cultural Center, 1101 Milford Street Houston, TX 77006.  Doors open at 6:30pm and films begin at 7:15pm. Movies are in Italian with English subtitles.

The next screening in this film series is Smetto quando voglio (I Can Quit Whenever I Want), directed  by Sydney Sibilia starring Edoardo Leo, Valeria Solarino and Valerio Aprea (2014 release 100 minutes).

Plot: The film tells the story of Pietro Zinni, a brilliant neurobiologist, who suddenly loses his job at the university because of the economic crisis.

Without any reasonable chance to find another contract, Pietro is forced by his situation to put together an unlikely criminal gang.

After meeting a student of his, he learns the street value of drugs and he then designs a “non-illegal” drug and starts selling it with a group of nerdy friends, PhD holders, working menial jobs and underpaid.

The success of their business is immediate and unexpected and now Pietro and his friends have to manage something they are not used to: money, a lot of money, too much for a bunch of bookworms.