'The Resort': Five Perfect Minutes and Countless Missed Opportunities
The Resort has an excellent climax surrounded by disappointments. Somehow, at a mere 75 minutes, this movie still manages to be 70 minutes too long.

Bruno De Santis, successful TV presenter, was left by his wife Sofia. One day he decides to call her to convince her to come back but her device is broken. By a strange twist of fate, it happens in the house of three women, Vera, Simona and Betty, who, tired of their respective husbands and boyfriends, live together and manage a boutique. By them he is pitied, pampered and even hosted in their apartment. And so Bruno, little by little, becomes the sultan of the little harem.
The Resort has an excellent climax surrounded by disappointments. Somehow, at a mere 75 minutes, this movie still manages to be 70 minutes too long.
Ricky Staub’s Concrete Cowboy, based on Greg Neri’s novel "Ghetto Cowboy", tells the story of a young teenager forced to adapt to a new lifestyle.
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