Cresciuto a Livorno, città d'origine della madre[1], ha iniziato la propria carriera nel 1991, con la cosceneggiatura del film Condominio di Felice Farina. Dal 1994 ha scritto le sceneggiature dei film del regista Paolo Virzì (La bella vita, Ferie d'agosto, Ovosodo, Baci e abbracci, My Name Is Tanino, Caterina va in città, N (Io e Napoleone) e Tutta la vita davanti) e dal 1995 al 2003 anche quelle dei film del regista Mimmo Calopresti (La seconda volta, La parola amore esiste, Preferisco il rumore del mare, La felicità non costa niente). Ha inoltre lavorato con Franco Bernini (soggetto e sceneggiatura del film Sotto la luna), David Riondino (Cuba libre - Velocipedi ai tropici), Francesca Comencini (Le parole di mio padre) e con i comici Ficarra e Picone (Nati stanchi, Il 7 e l'8, La Matassa). Ha collaborato alle sceneggiature de I Viceré di Roberto Faenza, tratto dall' omonimo romanzo di Federico De Roberto, e del film, in uscita nel 2008, Miracle at St. Anna, di Spike Lee. Ha anche contribuito al soggetto del lungometraggio in quattro episodi 4-4-2 - Il gioco più bello del mondo, prodotto da Paolo Virzì Per la televisione ha adattato per la serie del Commissario Montalbano, i racconti e romanzi di Andrea Camilleri e per la serie Il commissario De Luca quelli di Carlo Lucarelli. Ha inoltre sceneggiato il film TV Il tunnel della libertà, per la regia di Enzo Monteleone. Come attore ha recitato in una piccola parte nel film La guerra degli Antò di Riccardo Milani (1999). ...
The life of a melancholy professor is turned upside down when he discovers that a rebellious teenager he is tutoring is actually his son. (more)
The life of a melancholy professor is turned upside down when he discovers that a rebellious teenager he is tutoring is actually his son. (more)
Elba island, 1814. Martino is a young teacher, idealist and strongly anti Napoleon, in love with the beautiful and noble Baroness Emily. The young man finds himself serving as librarian to the Great Emperor in exile, whom he deeply hates, yet soon begins recording ... (more)
Elba island, 1814. Martino is a young teacher, idealist and strongly anti Napoleon, in love with the beautiful and noble Baroness Emily. The young man finds himself serving as librarian to the Great Emperor in exile, whom he deeply hates, yet soon begins recording ... (more)
James prepares for his eighth grade oral exams while his family is going through different times. (more)
James prepares for his eighth grade oral exams while his family is going through different times. (more)
An aimless young troublemaker, Alessandro, squanders his days gambling and getting into fights, and he often spends his nights in jail. With few prospects, he begrudgingly accepts a job as a companion to Giorgio, an elderly poet suffering from Alzheimer’s. On their ... (more)
An aimless young troublemaker, Alessandro, squanders his days gambling and getting into fights, and he often spends his nights in jail. With few prospects, he begrudgingly accepts a job as a companion to Giorgio, an elderly poet suffering from Alzheimer’s. On their ... (more)
Bruno Salvati is a director of little success, fresh from the separation from his wife Anna with whom he had two children, the twenty-year-old Adele and the seventeen-year-old Tito. Following a sudden illness, Bruno is diagnosed with a disease that requires the ... (more)
Bruno Salvati is a director of little success, fresh from the separation from his wife Anna with whom he had two children, the twenty-year-old Adele and the seventeen-year-old Tito. Following a sudden illness, Bruno is diagnosed with a disease that requires the ... (more)