There’s a new movie out for Italophiles…
Sarah Jessica Parker and Under the Tuscan Sun actor Raoul Bova have joined up to star in a new romantic comedy set in Italy, All Roads Lead to Rome, about love and family. The movie, filmed in Rome and surrounding areas, follows uptight, New York City college writing teacher Maggie (Parker) and her unwilling, troubled teenager Summer (Rosie Day) as they visit Italy on a mother-daughter trip.
Having discovered la dolce vita 20 years earlier, Maggie wants to show Summer the same carefree experience she had; this, combined with the desire to get Summer away from her drug-dealer boyfriend, lands the pair in the Italian countryside with a rented yellow station wagon. Unbeknownst — or not? — to Maggie, the neighbor of the villa she rented is her former flame, Luca (Bova), whom she met when she traveled to Italy when she was young and single.
Now a recently divorced mother of a rebellious daughter — who’s sporting the typical punk-rock-teen movie wardrobe of pink hair, heavy eyeliner and black clothing — Maggie finds herself reflecting on the last 20 years. Still single himself, Luca is living with his mother, Carmen, who is secretly engaged to a man who lives in Rome.
Meanwhile, Summer is anxious to get home to New York and to her boyfriend, and takes off to Rome with Carmen in Luca’s flashy red convertible as Carmen instructs her to drive to a chapel in Rome so she can marry her lover. Maggie’s hope of showing Summer that there is life beyond boys fizzles a bit when she reconnects with Luca, and the two hop in the yellow rental car and pursue Summer and Carmen, having their own adventures along the way.
By Kathy McCabe
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