A brash braggart drags a meek law student along for a two-day road trip from Rome to Tuscany.
Il sorpasso (“the overtaking”) is a 1962 Italian cult comedy film co-written and directed by Dino Risi and starring Vittorio Gassman, Jean-Louis Trintignant, and Catherine Spaak. It is regarded as Risi’s masterpiece and one of the greatest examples of the cinema genre commedia all’italiana.