Still image from the 1986 film Ginger and Fred.

Ginger and Fred

Directed by Federico Fellini

A song-and-dance team are reunited for a nostalgic television special.

1986 2h 6m Drama TV-14

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CAST
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Federico Fellini, Director
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Federico Fellini
Director

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Marcello Mastroianni, Pippo Botticella--
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Pippo Botticella--

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Franco Fabrizi, Television Program Host
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Franco Fabrizi
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Giulietta Masina, Amelia Bonetti--
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Giulietta Masina
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FULL SYNOPSIS

At one time, Amelia Bonetti and Pippo Botticella were a famous song and dance team who gained success by recreating the dance routines of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. Eventually, they gave up on becoming the Fred and Ginger of Italy and broke up the act. Many years have gone by and Amelia has had little success with her other occupations, so she is thrilled to land a guest-starring role on a TV variety show and immediately calls Pippo to appear with her. But Amelia finds that Pippo has lost his resemblance to Astaire over the years.


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Are We In Such Bad Shape?...
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Keep Rome Clean
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I Don't See The Resemblance...
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It's Like A Landing Strip...
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Original Trailer
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ARTICLES
Ginger and Fred (1986) was one of the last films made by cinema's unchallenged master of grotesque caricature, Federico Fellini. After a long career of brilliantly marching out spiritual, economic, and social charlatans for our scrutiny, it made sense that Fellini would finally get around to taking aim at that towering repository of all-encompassing phoniness - television. Paradoxically enough - and after years of begging from advertisers - he decided to shoot Ginger and Fred shortly after helming his first TV commercial! (Pretentious cineastes can at least be thankful that he rejected an offer to direct a Boy George video around the same time.) Ginger and Fred tells the story of Amelia (Giulietta Masina, Fellini's real-life wife) and Pippo (Marcello Mastroianni) two aging, second-tier hoofers who used to go by the stage names of "Fred and Ginger." Years past their primes, and having completely lost contact with each other, they're invited to participate in a televised variety show that will include such "acts" as a priest who has married and will kiss his new bride on the air, a troupe of dancing midgets, a transvestite who offers sexual favors to horny prison inmates, and an inventor who eats his new-and-improved edible panties off of a model. (Any resemblance to the Fox network is purely coincidental...if not visionary.) Amelia and Pippo try to rehearse, but it becomes clear that Pippo is an alcoholic who has only shown up for the quick money. ...

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