Parents' Guide to The Price of Nonna's Inheritance

Romance among elderly people is not often seen in mainstream media, and despite its very dark undertones, this Italian comedy by Giovanni Bognetti makes a case for why this should be more common. In The Price of Nonna's Inheritance, we see how an entire family desperately tries to destroy the relationship between a wealthy grandma who has decided to marry a younger man. As the family resorts to well, murder and using death to part them before the ceremony, they fail to see how happy their grandmother is, turning her into a wistful character we can't help but root for.

Writer/director Bognetti writes hilariously neurotic characters that deal with the moral consequences of their actions. Finocchiaro shines as the grand dame who seems unaware her family sees her as a walking bank account but is secretly wiser than they think, but Claudio Colica steals her show as her grandson Emilio, who goes down a guilt trip worthy of Dostoyevsky. Older viewers will surely enjoy the high stakes comedy and not be taken aback by the darkness with which Bognetti captures humanity's obsession with money.