Forty years of the history of Italy from the Eighties to the present day through the friendship of four boys who, in the course of time dream, are disappointed, fall in love, they betray, they have their ideals, which then break, lose and find themselves. the The most beautiful years , in the dining-room on the eve of Valentine’s day in 500 copies, is a film about friendship according to Gabriele Muccino that is started from the structure of’eravamo tanto amati Scola but then the movie took a different path, the relationship between these four guys is the glue that holds together this story, it is the value that has given an impulse to these lives that were shiprecked for the most part, flounder and then find themselves and, in the end they toast to the simple things”. Toast, Manfredi, Gassman, Satta Flores and Sandrelli “that the half portions may become the whole” becomes in the contemporary world a toast, “to the things that make us feel good”.