
- Country: Italy
- Genres: Comedy, Romance
- Release: 1996-03-28
- Director: Giuseppe Piccioni
- Writers: Gualtiero Rosella
- Language: Italian
- Stars: Giulio Scarpati , Gene Gnocchi , Margherita Buy , Stefano Abbati
- Runtime: 103 min
- Awards: 2 wins
- AKA: Corazones vac'os (Chile) , Penniless Hearts (United Kingdom) , Penniless Hearts (United States of America) , Penniless Hearts , Coração Falido (Portugal, Portuguese Republic) , Love, Money and Philosophy (New Zealand) , Cuori al verde , Penniless Hearts (Canada) , Cuori al verde (Italy)
- Plot: Three young people, three stories. Stefano is a jobless graduate and has recently lost his girlfriend. Giulio is a divorced plumber, has a fifteen year-old daughter and he's seeing Martina, younger than him. Lucia is a waitress in a pub and lives with a two bit singer. One night Giulio saves Stefano from suicide and takes him home. Lucia is betrayed by her man and gets the sack. Stefano stays at Giulio's home and tries to learn to be a plumber; while Lucia decides to become a call girl. One day Lucia calls up the other two to repair a broken tap and Stefano begins to think of her and falls in love, not knowing about her "job", while Giulio is abandoned by Martina.
- IMDB:tt0115992


Penniless Hearts Cast · · · ALL

Giuseppe Piccioni
Director

Giulio Scarpati
Stefano

Margherita Buy
Lucia

Gene Gnocchi
Giulio

Gaia De Laurentiis
Martina

Antonio Catania
Piero

Katarina Vasilissa
Caterina

Renzo Stacchi
Publio

Paolo Maria Scalondro
Bank director

Mauro Marino
Carlo

Corso Salani
Emanuele

Stefano Abbati
Lucia's customer
Delphine Telesio
Rebecca

Piero Natoli
Marcello

Giovanni Vettorazzo
Paolo

Giorgio Gobbi
Clerk
Monica Rametta
Emanuela

Ramón Vargas
Nemorino