Il bambino cattivo ("The naughty child") is a television film released in 2013, directed by Pupi Avati and produced by Rai Fiction.

[2] Abandoned by his parents, and with his paternal grandmother, incapacitated, Brando is given to a family house (an orphanage).

Hallucinating and presumably still wrongly believing that Brando endorses the relationship between his father and Lisetta, she refers to him as a "bad boy".

The couple had a son who had died recently, but the boy rejects them, fearing that he would be abandoned again.

Brando then agrees to the foster care proposal, stating that he did not want to become just a substitute for their dead son.