Could not agree more with your assessment!!! I wanted food! I wanted backstories / they had Lorraine Bracco for gods sake - it could’ve been soooooo good with Vince Vaughn as the affable dream follower that falls in love. Also could cast his love interest better, there was ZERO chemistry there. That being said I’m surprised you didn’t call out the fact that they (Netflix) is now leaning into the coastal grandma trend hard by making Nonna Rom Coms. This is exciting and perhaps someone someday soon will get it right?
Netflix is totally behind the trend. "Coastal grandma peaked in 2022, and "Grandmacore" has been a trending search query since 2020. I hope someday someone finally portrays the aging woman in a way that does her justice.
As for someone who grew up in Brooklyn in a two-woman household (Italian Grandmother, and Italian American Mother), I will just say you are being a little too hard on this movie = )
Not Oscar worthy, but it was very cute and nostalgic. - Dan
An old friend of mine, Carmen, long since passed, grew up in Kansas City’s North End, also known as Columbus Park, in a family of four kids being raised by a struggling single mom. That neighborhood was heavily Italian, mostly Calabrians from southern Italy. Carmen told me the highlight of their week was the spaghetti sauce with neck bones that would simmer all day, Sunday gravy. They would eat on a linen tablecloth with her mom’s good china.
Could not agree more with your assessment!!! I wanted food! I wanted backstories / they had Lorraine Bracco for gods sake - it could’ve been soooooo good with Vince Vaughn as the affable dream follower that falls in love. Also could cast his love interest better, there was ZERO chemistry there. That being said I’m surprised you didn’t call out the fact that they (Netflix) is now leaning into the coastal grandma trend hard by making Nonna Rom Coms. This is exciting and perhaps someone someday soon will get it right?
Netflix is totally behind the trend. "Coastal grandma peaked in 2022, and "Grandmacore" has been a trending search query since 2020. I hope someday someone finally portrays the aging woman in a way that does her justice.
As for someone who grew up in Brooklyn in a two-woman household (Italian Grandmother, and Italian American Mother), I will just say you are being a little too hard on this movie = )
Not Oscar worthy, but it was very cute and nostalgic. - Dan
An old friend of mine, Carmen, long since passed, grew up in Kansas City’s North End, also known as Columbus Park, in a family of four kids being raised by a struggling single mom. That neighborhood was heavily Italian, mostly Calabrians from southern Italy. Carmen told me the highlight of their week was the spaghetti sauce with neck bones that would simmer all day, Sunday gravy. They would eat on a linen tablecloth with her mom’s good china.
You're making me salivate just reading.
Thanks for saving me the trouble!