Style: Dramedy
Director: Stephen Chbosky
Starring: Vince Vaughn, Linda Cardellini, Susan Sarandon, Brenda Vaccaro, Talia Shire, Lorraine Bracco
Operating Time: 114 minutes
Synopsis: Raised in a food-loving Brooklyn-based Italian household, transit employee Joe (Vince Vaughn) decides to honor his deceased mom by opening a restaurant and having the meals ready by precise Italian grandmothers, or nonnas. Joe’s buddy Bruno (Joe Manganiello) helps with renovations, and Joe recruits his mom’s finest buddy Roberta (Lorraine Bracco), hairdresser Gia (Susan Sarandon), former nun Teresa (Talia Shire), and Antonella (Brenda Vaccaro) to run the kitchen. He additionally reconnects with Antonella’s neighbour Olivia (Linda Cardellini), who was his highschool promenade evening date. Regardless of good intentions, transitioning from an concept to a profitable enterprise is not going to be simple.
What Works Nicely: Primarily based on precise occasions, this can be a heartwarming dream-turns-real story. Nostalgia, love of household, homeland traditions, and a few spiky humour (the nonnas do not all essentially all the time like one another) underpin Joe’s unlikely aspirations to construct and run a enterprise from scratch. An excellent group of veteran actresses brings high quality to the stovetops, and the script takes care to around the nonnas into actual ladies with backstories, struggles, and disappointments value sharing.
What Does Not Work As Nicely: That is an finally small-scale story that marches to acquainted against-the-odds beats, with a foregone conclusion. The makes an attempt to wring admittedly humorous stress out of Bologna versus Sicily hostilities and Joe’s clashes with Bruno are by no means greater than apparent narrative pace bumps.
Key Quote:
Teresa: We’re sturdy ladies with Italian blood in us.
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