Synopsis
In his follow-up to the 2010 sleeper hit "Mid-August Lunch”, writer-director-actor Gianni Di Gregorio has created another comic ode to the ladies in his life-but this time he plays a middle-aged retiree who has become invisible to all distaff Romans, regardless of age or relation. In The Salt of Life, he contends with a aristocratic, spendthrift mother; a wife who is more patronizing friend than romantic partner; a daughter with a slacker boyfriend whom Gianni unwillingly befriends; and a wild young neighbor who sees him merely as a dog walker. Watching his "codger” friends snare beautiful younger women on the sun-kissed cobblestones of Trastevere, Gianni tries his polite, utterly gracious best to generate some kind of extracurricular love life-with both hilarious and poignant results.
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Movie Details
| Uruguay Releases: |
May 4th, 2012 (Wide) |
| Video Release: |
September 18th, 2012 by Zeitgeist Home |
| MPAA Rating: |
Not Rated |
| Running Time: |
90 minutes |
| Keywords: |
Directing Yourself, Autumn Years, Infidelity, Relationships Gone Wrong, Relationship Advice, Dysfunctional Family, Relatives Playing Relatives |
| Source: | Original Screenplay |
| Genre: | Comedy |
| Production Method: | Live Action |
| Creative Type: | Contemporary Fiction |
| Production/Financing Companies: |
Bibi Film, Isaria Productions, RAI Cinema |
| Production Countries: |
Italy |
| Languages: |
Italian |
March 7th, 2012
Dr. Seuss' The Lorax was surprisingly strong during its opening and that helped it win the race on top of the per theater chart with an average of $18,830. The only other two films in the $10,000 club, Being Flynn and Boy, were neck-and-neck at $10,998 and $10,622 respectively.
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March 4th, 2012
Universal will be celebrating this weekend as their good year gets a whole lot better thanks to the estimated $70 million opening of The Lorax. While not a record for March (a mark held firmly by Alice in Wonderland with $116 million), that will be enough for either second or third on the all time March openers list, basically level with 300's debut in 2007. Given its $65 million - $70 million production budget, the film will be a huge boost for the studio's animation arm. It also means that this weekend will be about 25% ahead of the same weekend last year.
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March 2nd, 2012
It's quite a busy week in terms of limited releases with nine films on this week's list. There are a couple that are earning very strong reviews, like Boy and Last Days Here. There are also a couple opening wider than the average limited release, like Paan Singh Tomar and Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie. Unfortunately, the widest release of the week, Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie, is also earning some of the weakest reviews of the week.
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Because some of our sources provide box office data in their local currency, while we use USD in the graph above and table below, exchange rate fluctuations can have effect on the data causing stronger increases or even decreases of the cumulative box office.
Weekend Box Office Performance
| Date | Rank | Gross | % Change | Screens | Per Screen | Total Gross | Week |
|---|
| 2012/05/04 |
11 |
$4,393 |
|
1 |
$4,393 |
$4,393 |
1 |
| 2012/05/11 |
11 |
$2,698 |
-39% |
1 |
$2,698 |
$7,541 |
2 |
| 2012/05/18 |
15 |
$2,633 |
-2% |
1 |
$2,633 |
$10,759 |
3 |
| 2012/05/25 |
13 |
$2,608 |
-1% |
1 |
$2,608 |
$14,214 |
4 |
| 2012/06/01 |
14 |
$1,576 |
-40% |
1 |
$1,576 |
$16,469 |
5 |
| 2012/06/08 |
12 |
$535 |
-66% |
1 |
$535 |
$16,459 |
6 |
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