God Willing (2015 Film)
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''God Willing'' () is a 2015 Italian
comedy film The comedy film is a film genre that emphasizes humor. These films are designed to amuse audiences and make them laugh. Films in this genre typically have a happy ending, with dark comedy being an exception to this rule. Comedy is one of the o ...
directed by Edoardo Falcone.


Plot

Tommaso is a successful, respected cardiac surgeon who also happens to be an
atheist Atheism, in the broadest sense, is an absence of belief in the existence of deities. Less broadly, atheism is a rejection of the belief that any deities exist. In an even narrower sense, atheism is specifically the position that there no ...
. However, Tommaso's son Andrea, who is a medical student, announces in a family get-together that he wants to become a priest. Tommaso is petrified and irritated with
Catholicism The Catholic Church (), also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the List of Christian denominations by number of members, largest Christian church, with 1.27 to 1.41 billion baptized Catholics Catholic Church by country, worldwid ...
, plans with his son-in-law, Gianni, to prevent Andrea's change. Tommaso goes undercover while Andrea is absent, on retreat in a monastery, to investigate and bring down the charismatic Father Don Pietro, who he believes has "brain-washed" his son and caused upheaval in his family. Meanwhile, his wife Carla, who feels unappreciated becomes an alcoholic and joins with a resistance movement reminiscing her active past and his daughter Bianca who lives in the opposite apartment gets interested and accepts
Catholicism The Catholic Church (), also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the List of Christian denominations by number of members, largest Christian church, with 1.27 to 1.41 billion baptized Catholics Catholic Church by country, worldwid ...
. Fr. Pietro learns of Tommaso's plan and asks his help for one month as a handyman to renovate a church along with him to not reveal what Tommaso did to his son Andrea. Tommaso agrees and while working with Fr. Pietro, he starts to change his behaviors and become friendly with his co-workers and patients and a lot less uptight. Fr. Pietro takes him to a secluded serene hilltop with a view to a lake and explains everything that happens is God's will and plan. Tommaso's relationship with his wife gets better. Tommaso's accidentally sees his son Andrea being intimate with a girl from their church group. Tommaso excuses himself, but his son comes and says the girl is his lover and intends to continue his medical studies. Tommaso asks about his priesthood decision and Andrea tells that after the retreat at the monastery he didn't feel he had what it required to really be a priest and tells Fr. Pietro knew about it. Tommaso feels fooled by the priest and equally funny. Tommaso tries to reach Fr. Pietro through phone, but there is no answer. The next morning Tommaso finds Fr. Pietro in a stretcher in his hospital. He finds out Fr. Pietro met with an accident the day before and his condition is serious. He discusses the prognosis with his fellow doctor who was going to operate the priest and finds out the
subdural hematoma A subdural hematoma (SDH) is a type of bleeding in which a collection of blood—usually but not always associated with a traumatic brain injury—gathers between the inner layer of the dura mater and the arachnoid mater of the meninges surrou ...
is severe and would take a miracle to save him. Tommaso goes out to the church he and Fr. Pietro was renovating and does the remaining minor works and goes out to the serene place where the priest has taken him and sits there for sometime and sees a pear fall down and remembers how funnily Fr. Pietro explained to him that everything happens is God's will.


Cast

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Marco Giallini Marco Giallini (born 4 April 1963) is an Italian actor. Life and career Born in Rome, Giallini is the son of a housewife and a furnace labourer. After attending the Accademia Nazionale di Arte Drammatica Silvio D'Amico, he began acting on st ...
as Tommaso *
Alessandro Gassmann Alessandro Gassmann (; born 24 February 1965) is an Italian actor and film director. Early life Born in Rome, he is the son of Italian actor Vittorio Gassman and French actress Juliette Mayniel. He is of Italian, German, Jewish and French des ...
as Father Pietro *
Laura Morante Laura Morante (born 21 August 1956) is an Italian film actress. Life and career Morante was born in Santa Fiora, province of Grosseto (Tuscany), the daughter of lawyer and playwright Marcello Morante, who was the son of Irma (née Poggibonsi) ( ...
as Carla * Ilaria Spada as Bianca *
Edoardo Pesce Edoardo Pesce (born 12 September 1979) is an Italian actor. Biography A student of the actor Enzo Garinei, Pesce began his career on stage, but gained notoriety with the TV series ''Romanzo criminale'' and ''I Cesaroni''. He received critical a ...
as Gianni *Enrico Oetiker as Andrea *Carlo De Ruggieri as Pizzuti *Alex Cendron as Fratta *Giuseppina Cervizzi as Rosa


External links

* 2015 comedy films Films about Catholicism Films about religion Italian comedy films 2010s Italian-language films 2010s Italian films Films scored by Carlo Virzì Italian-language comedy films Films produced by Lorenzo Mieli {{2010s-Italy-comedy-film-stub