Sue Me

Mi sue cause (Italian: Mi faccia causa) is a 1984 movie, directed by Steno and starring Christian De Sica, Gigi Proietti, Enrico Montesano and Stefania Sandrelli.

The film also has a long version for television, lasting 3 hours and a half.

Plot
The director Stefano Vanzina (aka Steno) already in 1953 had directed Un giorno in pretura, set in courtrooms, where the magistrate was played by Peppino De Filippo. This time the praetor is played by Christian De Sica.

In the first episode the praetor has the courage to condemn a Corleone mafioso named Rosario Mancuso for culpable injuries, as he invested a citizen with the car. When he goes to the bar for a cognac he is approached by the defendant and believes that he is threatening his family. He escapes to alert his wife but, when she arrives in the magistrate's court, the misunderstanding is clarified: the mafioso wanted to thank him because the sentence constituted the alibi he needed in a serious mafia trial. The praetor finds himself confused with a yellow envelope in his hand containing the bribe given to him by the mafia, he does not know what to do and asks the cleaning lady to keep it until the end of the hearings. The mafioso will then declare himself regretted, claiming that the only time he heard the word "Lupara" was referring to an Italian village.

In the second episode we witness the contest between the rocker Artemio Chiccaccia with band and the Neapolitan musician Leonardo De Leonardis, who sings in the classroom a piece that seems to be a plagiarism of O sole mio. The praetor is the most involved in the music and starts singing and dancing. In the future, Maestro De Leonardis will sue the Italian State because he claims that the Mameli Hymn is actually his song and claims reimbursement of copyright.

In the third episode, an employee of the tax office, Rosanna Bianchini, sued journalist Luisa Pelliccione from the weekly magazine La donna italiana, for an article according to which she would be a prostitute. The fact is true to the praetor, who applies the law and does not accept the lawsuit. After the hearing, however, he falls in love with Rosanna and, to make her think again about the fact that luck will come back to smile at her, gets rid of the yellow envelope given to him by the mafioso, giving it to her. With that money, Rosanna distributes bribes to competition directors, winning even four.

In the fourth episode, Luigi Marchetti, known as Mani d'oro, is a thief who tried to clean up a villa. Reo confesses, tells how the plan had matured starting from the news he had in the bar. The oddities of the villa had become more complicated still when he made friends with the small son of the owners of the villa: he had offered to open the safe at home as long as the criminal had played with him. However the man wants to show him to be able to force the safe even without keys, but the enterprise proves impossible. Disconsolate, he asks the child to give him the keys but, seeing that he is sleeping peacefully, he is seized by a crisis of repentance and is about to leave without stealing anything. While he is leaving, he is discovered by the maids who call the police. He is sentenced to three months without parole for domicile violation. In prison, Marchetti will found the Thieves Artists Professionals Syndicate, obtaining a lavish pension.

In the fifth episode, Rebecchino De Profundis, a watchmaker with a reputation as a jettatore, denounces a neighbor for calling him a jettatore. The complainant turns out to be a dangerous person, capable of disrupting the classroom with wind storms and blackouts whenever he is contradicted, although he himself claims not to possess any malignant fluid. In a situation that seems almost an exorcism, the praetor accepts his request and condemns the sued to pay him 200,000 lire. De Profundis in the future will ask for another compensation because, after the building in which he lived collapsed, the administrator suggested that it was his fault.

In the sixth episode, a great plastic fan of Inter, denounced two Romanist fans, the electrouto Oreste and the Prince Valfredo Orselli of Querciarola, for obscene, insulting and foul language, because the two, who were with him at the Olympic Stadium, in prey to the euphoria of Roma's 2-1 advantage over Inter, they had peed on their shoulders. Eventually, the football passions of those present will be unleashed in the courtroom, including that of the praetor Pennisi, a fan of Lazio.

In the seventh episode, an effeminate man named Umberto Recchia denounced a gentleman because, following a trivial quarrel, he called her a frociaccio. The plaintiff, assisted by the testimony of an employee and a lawyer in great shape, obtains justice and receives compensation in cash.

In the eighth episode, Annibale Saraceni is a boxer fired by the manager, who won only one challenge in his life: to save a little dog, knocking out three baddies who were about to set fire to the animal. The quadruped, named Augusto by his previous masters, turns out to be a thief who helps Hannibal with petty theft. Thanks to the dog, Hannibal had met his girlfriend Zizì; however dog and boxer had exaggerated stealing a ring for Zizì. The praetor, seeing that the dog cannot speak, absolves the boxer who discharged the blame on Augustus and condemns the animal to the kennel. However, fearing that the animal fell, Hannibal changed version and accused himself of leaving the dog in the care of the girl. Hannibal will then leave the prison, supported by various animal welfare and environmental associations, but above all thanks to the help of Rocky, who managed to become a friend of Marco Pannella.

In the ninth episode the protagonist is De Sica himself. While in bed with his wife, dreaming of the arrival of the Martians who bring justice, a light dazzles him from the window. He believes they are them, but it is only the neighbor who wants to make an abusive construction, since the same magistrate is illegally building a veranda on the terrace. In a crisis of repentance, Giovanni will declare himself for abusive room construction.

The TV version of the film, which lasts 3 hours and 36 minutes, was broadcast on television in 4 parts. In this version the episodes are not in order as in the cinematographic one, shorter. There are also some scenes that are not seen in the film version and there are also four more cases: a fraudster who, posing as an old schoolmate of some fellow citizens, sneaked into their home and robbed them; a dispute between a Marche restaurateur and a customer accused of insolvency because, in the latter's opinion, the food was inedible; an attractive lady accused of illegal possession of currency and another case of fraud, which also affects Giovanni because the condemned man was a man to whom the praetor had asked a favor upon payment.

Cast

 * Christian De Sica: Giovanni Pennisi
 * Gigi Proietti: Luigi Marchetti
 * Stefania Sandrelli: Rosanna Bianchini
 * Franco Fabrizi: Intermediate Surgeon
 * Giorgio Bracardi: Leonardo De Leonardis
 * Luca Sportelli: Bruno Gargiulo
 * Gigi Reder: lawyer of the two Romanists
 * Antonio Francioni: lawyer Tambrone
 * Clara Colosimo: wife of Gargiulo
 * Franco Javarone: Rosario Mancuso
 * Marisa Laurito: Francesca Pennisi
 * Enrico Montesano: Annibale Saraceni known as Rocky III
 * Angelo Maggi: Valfredo Orselli of Querciarola
 * Gianni Baghino: Lazio fan
 * Annabella Schiavone: Giovanni's mother-in-law
 * Jimmy the Phenomenon: Foggia Fan
 * Max Turilli: Ermete Luparelli
 * Fabrizio Bracconeri: Oreste
 * Ennio Antonelli: father of Oreste
 * Franco Caracciolo: Umberto Recchia
 * Deddi Savagnone: mother of Oreste
 * Martufello: Gaetano De Cesaris
 * Alvaro Gradella: office manager Rosanna Bianchini
 * Alessandro Bellacanzone: the child Andrea "Pat"