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Genre
  
Comedy, Crime, Mystery

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Language
  
Italian

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Release date
  
22 October 1994 (Italy)19 April 1996 (U.S.)

Writer
  
Vincenzo Cerami (story), Roberto Benigni (story), Michel Blanc (french adaptation), Roberto Benigni (screenplay)

Screenplay
  
Roberto Benigni, Michel Blanc, Vincenzo Cerami

Cast
  
Roberto Benigni
(Loris), (Jessica Rossetti),
Michel Blanc
(Paride Taccone), (Jolanda Taccone),
Jean-Claude Brialy
(Roccarotta)

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Il mostro (The Monster) is a 1994 Italian-French comedy film. It starred Roberto Benigni as a man who is mistaken by police profilers for a serial killer due to a misunderstanding of the man's strange behavior. This film was, at the time it came out, the highest-grossing film in Italy, bested later by another Benigni film, Life is Beautiful.

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Loris (Roberto Benigni) is a part-time mannequin handler for a department store. He hopes to learn Chinese in order to get an assistant manager position. He lives in a building where he hasn't paid the rent in months, and he also owes money to other people around town.

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At a party, Loris is told about a nymphomaniac who will sleep with anyone. Loris approaches the wrong woman, who runs away and tells the police. Because of his odd behavior, Loris becomes the chief suspect in a series of rape/murders. The chief of police, frustrated by the lack of solid evidence against Loris, resolves to provoke Loris's passion and catch him "red-handed." An attractive police officer, Jessica (Nicoletta Braschi) goes undercover as his roommate, and is directed by the police chief and the police doctor, Paride (Michel Blanc), to dress provocatively in order to entrap Loris.

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After a few days living in his apartment, Jessica begins to doubt Loris really is the killer. The police doctor, however, is convinced that Loris is on the brink of committing his 19th rape/murder. Paride visits Jessica's apartment on the pretext of fitting Loris for a suit. He performs all sorts of medical tests and Loris remains clueless, thinking he really is being fitted for a suit.

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Loris goes to interview at the Chinese company. His teacher gives him a little Chinese good luck charm, and Jessica sees this. Loris bombs the interview, unable to answer the very first question: to tell his name.

Jessica is about to give up on the case when Paride brings her a Little Red Riding Hood costume and says the police chief orders her to put it on. Paride is certain this will unleash Loris' "erotic urges." Jessica does as instructed but Loris remains unmoved to rape or murder anyone. Jessica is back at the police station when they get news that the serial killer has struck again. At the crime scene, Jessica finds the Chinese good luck charm and connects it to Loris' Chinese instructor. She goes to the Chinese language teacher's house, where she finds both Loris and the teacher. She instructs a uniformed police officer to release Loris, then she calmly directs the real killer to a squad car. The film concludes with Loris and Jessica kissing and then walking off into the sunset.

Reception

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Television and newspaper film critics in the United States largely overlooked the merits of this film. On Rotten Tomatoes, it holds a "rotten" rating of 33% on the critics' tomatometer. James Brundage of filmcritic.com comments on the film's simplicity and entertainment value, noting, "It's childish, it's fun, and you can enjoy it without grasping a single word of Italian... well, perhaps not the third part, but it doesn't require much intellectual effort."


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Chris Hicks of Deseret News was much less impressed by this film: "But after about an hour, Benigni and his film have worn out their welcome — and there's still almost an hour to go." He's surprised that "this movie was a monster hit — the biggest moneymaker in Italian movie history."

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Scholars, on the other hand, see the film as attack on the "conformity" and "compulsory consumption" brought about by Berlusconi’s media society within a discussion of Benigni’s roots in the Commedia dell’arte and a reflection on the often repeated comparison of Benigni with Buster Keaton." Benigni has also been compared to Charlie Chaplin, with the ending of The Monster being compared to the ending of Modern Times.


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