Deceptively simple and inexhaustibly rich in the manner of a true masterpiece, De Sica’s neorealist classic remains one of the most influential movies in film history. (The Chinese BEIJING BICYCLE and the Iranian CHILDREN OF HEAVEN are just two recent films heavily indebted to it.) A proud but desperate man and his adoring son set out through the labyrinth of postwar Rome in search of the stolen bicycle upon which the father’s livelihood depends.