(Not Yet Rated, 88 mins.)
In a montage opening narrated by Angelo (newcomer Luke Kirby), he tells the amusing tale in two minutes or less, of his parents Maria and Gino (Ginette Reno and Paul Sorvino) who emigrated from Italy to America. “There’s the real America and the fake one. Canada.” They end up in Montreal raising two children, Angelo, and his sister (Claudia Ferri). While life seems like a bowl full of pasta, Maria and Gino didn’t sign up for their son, not only moving out before marriage, but falling in love with his childhood chum, Nino (Peter Miller) a strapping cop who isn’t quite ready to come out of the closet. And so it goes, like “My Big Fat Greek Wedding” with its disbelief, followed by indignation, a battlefield of culture clash and modern world, but with a refreshing twist outside of its Catholic school boy at First Holy Communion limits. Instead it’s “there is no fate worse than being gay in Italian” and a cast that stays in character that in turn provides the deadpan humor. In the end you can take the Italian out of the old village, but can you take the village out of the Italian? You may be surprised. It’s one Big Fat Italian hit.
In a montage opening narrated by Angelo (newcomer Luke Kirby), he tells the amusing tale in two minutes or less, of his parents Maria and Gino (Ginette Reno and Paul Sorvino) who emigrated from Italy to America. “There’s the real America and the fake one. Canada.” They end up in Montreal raising two children, Angelo, and his sister (Claudia Ferri). While life seems like a bowl full of pasta, Maria and Gino didn’t sign up for their son, not only moving out before marriage, but falling in love with his childhood chum, Nino (Peter Miller) a strapping cop who isn’t quite ready to come out of the closet. And so it goes, like “My Big Fat Greek Wedding” with its disbelief, followed by indignation, a battlefield of culture clash and modern world, but with a refreshing twist outside of its Catholic school boy at First Holy Communion limits. Instead it’s “there is no fate worse than being gay in Italian” and a cast that stays in character that in turn provides the deadpan humor. In the end you can take the Italian out of the old village, but can you take the village out of the Italian? You may be surprised. It’s one Big Fat Italian hit.