Ninety-Nine Per Cent is Giorgio Mangiamele's only comedy. Gaetano Rando says of the film that it is 'to some extent based on a narrative style that recalls Pirandellian umorismo (Lampugnani 2006) but also contains significant elements of slapstick humour. It tells the story of Pino, a short and fat Italian widower, who decides to remarry when the principal of his son's school accuses him of not being able to look after his son properly. Given the scarcity of women willing to marry Italian migrants--a theme elaborated in the Italian comic film Bello onesto emigrato in Australia sposerebbe compaesana illibata (Zampa, 1971) [. . .] and, later, in Love's Brother (Sardi, 2004)--Pino resorts to a matrimonial agency and is assured by the manager that he has a 99 per cent chance of making it with a beautiful tall blonde. When he calls on the lady in question, she cruelly derides him. The likeable protagonist is left only with his son to console him' (Rando, 'Liminality' pp. 213-214).
