The Italians

The Italians, written by Lisa Phillips Visca, is chock-full of humor, warmth, and flair! With sharp, witty dialogue and well-drawn characters, the film depicts the everyday humor, love, and occasional tension that come with close-knit families. Visca's skillful writing brings authenticity and warmth to the story, offering relatable moments and subtle life lessons along the way. The cinematography is beautiful, capturing mouthwatering Italian dishes, bustling family dinners and sunny West Los Angeles. The characters are equally vibrant-fun, energetic, and full of personality. It's an enjoyable, thoughtful movie that balances laughs with heart. A perfect and much-needed film for the times! Bravo!

Timing is everything and this feel good, humorous and relatable drama about an awkward, crazy "meet the parents" clash is just what we needed.

How boring life would be if we were all alike. Our differences compliment each other and this film captures the essence of love through compromise and humor.

A great collaboration of screenwriting, casting, directing and acting to help us laugh at ourselves and shed a tear when most of us have become emotionally jaded with violent movies.

We enjoyed watching the story unfold and actually have an ending as most movies today leave you hanging without a conclusion and we are left imagining our own ending to the story.

Thank you!! This film is just what we needed!

I really enjoyed it and so did my girlfriend who went with me, we are both African American and I feel that this movie welcomes everyone, it is well directed the cinematography is highly professional from start to finish it keeps you engaged with a great story line All of the main characters did an excellent job in playing their roles, my favorite was the grandma she really played an excellent part her role really in my opinion was very well acted and played and very funny with a natural flow I really don't want to give too much of the movie away by telling too much of the story line but I think the average movie goer would definitely enjoy it two thumbs up for me!

The Italians is an absolute delight. It's an honest story about life and relationships. The message is one of love, family and forgiveness. It's filled with gut wrenching emotions and joyful moments. Screen Writer, Lisa Visca delivers. Each line is right on the mark. The actors fit their roles perfectly. You can feel the camaraderie among the cast. It comes shining right through the screen. This movie will make you laugh. It will make you cry. It will touch your heart and make you want to be a better person. It will make you want to watch it again and again and again. It is a work of art and a feel good movie that promotes positivity. Watch it! You won't be sorry. However, watch out, it might make you hungry for Italian food! Ciao.

Grew up Italian and the over-bearing mother is def a relatable character. Entertaining and enjoyable movie with a great ensemble cast. Pastor Joe is funny as the "family" priest, Abagail Breslin does a good job at being the odd person out dealing with their potential/future mother-in-law. The family dinner scenes make you want to grab some Italian for dinner tonight and the grandmother has some great comic relief moments. Give it a watch on Prime and enjoy a movie with a different story-line than what you usually see being put out there these days. Makes you appreciate family and realizing how fast someone can be there and gone the next day.