Musical comedy. A guy who works for a big company is held in high esteem by his boss, who wants him to marry his daughter. But the guy has a double life: at night he runs a nightclub for young people. His boss's daughter, who is in town on vacation from boarding school, has no intention of fulfilling his father's plans, and thus she sends her disagreeable cousin passing off as her to meet our hero.
Earlier fluff from the same director of Rio, Verão & Amor. Whereas that film depicted the "British invasion" in Brazilian music and customs, Alegria de Viver's plot is set against the backdrop of American rock-and-roll's colonization of Brazil's young hearts and minds. One joke stands out from the rest of the movie: a girl fakes a suicide attempt and plots to have her friend come over to her house. When said friend is shown several cans of poison and a a dozen bottles of lysol that her fake suicidal friend had in store, she comments: "Poor Silvia. She wanted to die disinfected!"
Rating: 31
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