Thank You Guys

Thank You Guys (Grazie ragazzi, 2023) is an Italian comedy-drama directed by Riccardo Milani — watch it online on iFILM. Antonio Albanese plays Antonio, a stage actor who hasn't had a role in years and ends up teaching drama at a prison.

His class is a mixed lot: a con man, a repeat offender, a quiet type who gives nothing away. They settle on Beckett's Waiting for Godot — a play about waiting for something that never shows up. Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Sonia Bergamasco and Vinicio Marchioni fill out the ensemble. By the third act of rehearsals, Antonio isn't sure who's running the workshop anymore.

Milani keeps the sentimentality on a short leash. It's the kind of film where the comedy and the sadness arrive in the same breath, and the prison setting earns its role rather than just providing backdrop. Stream Thank You Guys online on iFILM.