D.available in streaming from today, Little Italy is a brightly colored comedy released in cinemas in 2018. Directed by Donald Petrie, traces with the couple Emma Roberts And Hayden Christensen the love story of Romeo and Juliet – but with two families who oppose each other in the name of pizza. Also in the cast Danny Aiello.
Center stage love, desires, promises and dreams to pursue. Described in light and fun tones.
Little Italy: the plot
Nikki Angiolo (Emma Roberts), returned to Toronto after a period in England to study the secrets of cooking, reconnects with her childhood best friend and first love, Leo Campo (Hayden Christensen). A story shipwrecked due to the feud that broke out between their respective fathers: Sal (Adam Ferrara) and Vince (Gary Basaraba), passed from friends and associates of the pizzeria Pizza Naples to bitter rivals.
Emma Roberts and Hayden Christensen.
The war takes place face to face, with two pizzerias facing each other, in the Little Italy Canadian. The title of best pizza has been at stake for 15 years. While the father of Leo is famous for the dough, that of Nikki it is for the tasty tomato sauce.
Against the backdrop of this epic gastronomic dispute, Leo (whose dream is to open Organic Pizzaa place inspired by its organic garden) would like so much to get back with Nikki. Partner in crime a romantic football match at midnightunder a pouring rain.
Emma Roberts.
Of course, it’s only a matter of time before the two find out that they are really meant for each other, in spite of disagreeing families. And they are not alone in this “betrayal”: their respective grandparents Carlo (Danny Aiello) and Franca (Andrea Martin) have woven a secret relationship that ultimately leads them to the wedding ..
Faced with this crowning, Nikki and Leo confess, throwing in desperation Sal and Vince, who launch into one last challenge, obviously with pizza shots: whoever loses will have to leave the neighborhood forever. Will love or war win?
Emma Roberts and Hayden Christensen at the premiere of the film “Little Italy” (Getty Images)
Everyone’s crazy about pizza
Romantic comedy in the style of the 90s, Little Italy pays homage to the traditional Italian dish, which has become Unesco heritage since 2017. An awareness that prompted Christensen to deliver pizzas for a certain period, other than Actor’s Studio.
Besides Emma Roberts And Hayden Christensen, new Romeo and Juliet that move, amuse and make you smile, the film also has two icons such as Andrea Martin And Danny Aiello, the latter historical pizza maker of Do the right thing by Spike Lee, who died in 2019.
Emma Roberts and Hayden Christensen.
With fast pace the film links romance, traditional cuisine and oddities like replacing oregano with marijuana. However, he slips into excessive clichés and stereotypes about Italian culture, love for food, quarrels and confusing family.
Emma Roberts winks at Aunt Julia
Pizza isn’t exactly unknown territory for the director of Miss Detective (2000) and How to get dropped off in 10 days (2003). In fact, that little masterpiece of 1988 called Mystic Pizza, the film he put on the square Julia Roberts before the cyclone Pretty Woman. The story of three schoolgirls at the tables of a pizzeria in a fishing village on the Connecticut coast.
Little Italy does not reach the peaks of Mystic Pizza but pays homage to him in a scene, when the star of American Horror Story (and grandson of Julia Roberts) wears a t-shirt homage to that of her aunt in Donald Petrie’s film, in which the print stands out To slice of heaven.
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