Directed by Federico Fellini, 1953 | 1 hour 44 minutes

Fellini's first international success, based on memories of his youth, focuses on five layabouts in a sleepy seaside town during the winter off-season. Skirt-chaser Franco Fabrizi is forced into marriage but has eyes for his boss’s wife; would-be poet Leopoldo Trieste (later Signor Roberto in The Godfather Part II) gets to read his poetry to the actor he idolizes, with an unwelcome result, and Fellini's brother Ricardo Fellini emcees at a seedy beauty pageant. Only the youngest, Shoeshine’s Franco Interlenghi, will get out.

Winner of the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival and recipient of a rare Academy Award® nomination for a foreign-language screenplay, I Vitelloni features the second and possibly greatest of composer Nino Rota’s 16 Fellini film scores. An inspiration in style and story for films from as George Lucas’s American Graffiti and Martin Scorsese’s Mean Streets, this Fellini masterwork is now available in a glorious 4K restoration. In Italian with English subtitles.

“Captures the bittersweet emotions of a moment that eventually comes for everyone: the moment you realize you can either grow up, or stay forever a child.” —Martin Scorsese