Thank You Guys

Thank You Guys (Italian: Grazie ragazzi) is a 2023 Italian comedy-drama film directed by Riccardo Milani who co-wrote the screenplay with Michele Astori. It stars Antonio Albanese accompamied with Sonia Bergamasco, Vinicio Marchioni, Giacomo Ferrara, Giorgio Montanini, Andrea Lattanzi and Fabrizio Bentivoglio. It is an Italian-language remake of the 2020 French film The Big Hit, inspired in turn by a true story that occurred in Diana in the 1980s.

Synopsis
In the absence of job offers, Antonio, a passionate but often unemployed actor, accepts the job offered to him by an old friend and colleague, much smarter than him, as a teacher in a theater workshop at a penitentiary institute. Hesitant at first, he discovers talent in the unlikely company of inmates and this rekindles his passion and desire to do theater, to the point of convincing the stern prison director to cross the prison walls and stage the famous comedy by Samuel Beckett “Waiting for Godot” on a real theater stage.

Cast
The actors participating in this film are:


 * Antonio Albanese as Antonio
 * Sonia Bergamasco as Laura
 * Vinicio Marchioni as Diego
 * Giacomo Ferrara as Aziz
 * Giorgio Montanini as Mignolo
 * Andrea Lattanzi as Damiano
 * Fabrizio Bentivoglio as Michele
 * Nicola Rignanese as Ettore
 * Bogdan Iordachioiu

Production
Principal photography took place between the end of November and the beginning of December 2021 in Siena, Italy.

Release
Thank You Guys premiered on January 12, 2023, in Italian cinemas, then had its television screening on June 12 of the same year on Sky Cinema.