Stephen Chbosky directs Vince Vaughn, Linda Cardellini and Susan Sarandon in this comedy about a grieving son who invests all his assets into a start-up restaurant where old grandmas cook food like ‘Nonna’ used to make.

Saccharine sweet movie. There ain’t much to it to fill two hours but a good cast and a slather of lustre on top of the true story that inspired it. Without this particular ensemble (Sarandon, Bracco, Shire, Vaccaro… hell… even Drea de Matteo) it would be definitely be quite dull. Don’t watch it hungry or cynically. Also, while I haven’t searched the internet to confirm, I’m betting a crisp twenty there is a porn parody of this. And if such a thing does exist I bet another twenty it is only a sensible 90 minutes in length.

5

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