| Director: | Maurizio Nichetti |
| Starring: | Maurizio Nichetti |
| Music: | Detto Mariano |
| Cinematography: | Mario Battistoni |
| Editing: | Giancarlo Rossi |
| Producer: | Franco Cristaldi Nicola Carraro |
| Distributor: | Cineriz |
| Country: | Italy |
| Language: | Italian |
I Made a Splash is a 1980 comedy film co-written and directed by Maurizio Nichetti.
In the 1950s, a child falls into a long sleep in front of the TV during a performance by Nilla Pizzi. He awakens in the early 1980s and must face an entirely changed world dominated by consumism and advertising.
Principal photography started in May 1980.[1] The film was shot at Icet-De Paolis studios in Cinecittà.[2]
Piero Perona in La Stampa noted how the film, "rich in wit and style, consisted mainly of a revisiting of the silent cinema that directly inspired it", particularly Harry Langdon, Max Linder, Larry Semon and Charlie Chaplin.[3] According to Giovanni Grazzini from Corriere della Sera, in this film Nichetti displayed a "a greater maturity in narrative structure but a more fragile inspiration" than in his debut film Ratataplan.[4] Cinema Nuovos Ivo Franchi described the film as "structurally weak", with "flimsy characters" and comic situations he compared to TV variety show sketches.