IMDb plot summary: A young couple must navigate a blossoming romance, amidst a war between their families' competing pizza restaurants.
Directed by Donald Petrie. Starring Emma Roberts, Hayden Christensen, Danny Aiello, and Andrea Martin.
This is an exceptionally strange movie, clearly trying to be My Big Fat Greek Wedding but with Italy and hardly any Italian actors -- and, more confusingly, they all speak with stereotypical New York Italian accents despite the fact that the film is set in Canada. The chemistry between the two leads is nonexistent, with Emma Roberts appearing perpetually uncomfortable and Hayden Christensen completely unable to pass for a mid-twenties youth at 37. I also find it irritating how frequently romantic comedies in this style require the female lead to give up the dreams she has and settle down in one place with a good man and never leave it again. That's especially bizarre here, given that the male lead is *also* frequently frustrated with the narrow-mindedness of his tiny community. Just think how much fun they could have traveling the world! It's a messy, bland rom com that does no favors to the genre... or Canada.
How it entered my Flickchart:
Little Italy < Once Upon a Time ...in Hollywood
Little Italy < The First Wives Club
Little Italy > Joseph: King of Dreams
Little Italy < Marjorie Morningstar
Little Italy > Nicholas Nickleby
Little Italy > Countdown
Little Italy < The Great Train Robbery
Little Italy > Bus Stop
Little Italy > Analyze This
Little Italy > Jane Eyre (1997)
Little Italy > Fedora
Little Italy > The Boss
Final spot: #2631 out of 3206, or 18%.
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