What no Italian government has succeeded in doing is tackling the endemic corruption, political interference, bureaucratic inefficiency and broken justice system that has deterred investment, stifled innovation and destroyed any hope the country might grow its way outof its debt burden.
Ben Gazzara stars as Cosmo Vitelli, the owner and impresario of a strip joint, who, as the story begins, has just got out from under the burden of a debt to a loan shark when he gambles himself into a hole again.