I Won the New Year's Lottery

I Won the New Year's Lottery (Ho vinto la lotteria di Capodanno, 1989) is an Italian comedy by Neri Parenti you can watch online on iFILM. Ciottoli, a hopeless journalist drowning in debt with a mobster on his trail, suddenly hits a fortune in the national lottery.

Celebrating turns out to be premature. He stashes the winning ticket inside his typewriter, and while he's busy hiding the news from everyone, his furniture gets seized for unpaid debts and sent to public auction — typewriter included. What follows is a frantic chase after a worthless-looking machine worth millions, with all his old troubles still chasing him, the gangster most of all. Paolo Villaggio, the Italian comedy icon behind the immortal Fantozzi, takes the lead, and Parenti — who directed half those Fantozzi films — knows this little-man character by heart. It's a simple holiday farce with no pretensions, good for one cozy night. Stream I Won the New Year's Lottery online on iFILM.