A young couple must navigate a blossoming romance, amidst a war between their families' competing pizza restaurants.A young couple must navigate a blossoming romance, amidst a war between their families' competing pizza restaurants.A young couple must navigate a blossoming romance, amidst a war between their families' competing pizza restaurants.
Danny Aiello
- Carlo Campo
- (as Daniel Aiello)
Cristina Rosato
- Gina
- (as Christina Rosato)
Michael A. Miranda
- Amadeo
- (as Michael Miranda)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaEmma Roberts was spotted on set wearing a red shirt saying, "A slice of heaven." Julia Roberts, Emma's real-life aunt, wore a shirt with the same color and description in Mystic Pizza (1988), made by the same director as this film, which has people speculating this may be a follow-up.
- GoofsIn the pizza competition scene, Nikki has 10 minutes to make a pizza. She starts with a raw eggplant, and ends with a roasted eggplant pizza. However when preparing eggplant, it takes 20-30+ minutes to properly salt it, and an additional 20-30 minutes to roast it; so there is no way Nikki could have made an eggplant pizza fully from scratch in the required time.
- Quotes
Dora Angioli: You're so thin... no one trusts a skinny cook.
- Crazy creditsThere are some bloopers shown during the first part of the credits.
- ConnectionsFeatured in CTV News at Six Toronto: Episode dated 22 August 2018 (2018)
- SoundtracksPapa Loves Mambo
Performed by Perry Como
Written by Al Hoffman, Dick Manning and Bickley Reichner (as Bickley 'Bix' Reichner)
Published by Shapiro, Bernstein & Co., Inc., Al Hoffman Songs, Inc., admin. by Music Sales Corp. (ASCAP)
Courtesy of Sony Music Entertainment by arrangement with Sony Music Entertainment Canada Inc.
Featured review
My wife and I watched this movie at home, on DVD from our public library. It is mostly a cute, lightweight romantic comedy. Although I had assumed the location was New York City it in fact is Toronto. I suppose lots of large cities have a "Little Italy" section.
Two families are in the pizza business together, a boy and girl from each family grow up together as best friends. As young adults she goes off to culinary school in London, where she becomes one of the young stars with the opportunity to start a new restaurant. He stays home, works in the pizza shop, and has an apartment above the local bar where he also works.
Meanwhile the two families had a big falling out, they now have two competing pizza shops next to each other, and generally do not associate with the other family. This creates additional interest when the two old grandparents start to have affection for each other.
Hayden Christensen is the boy, Leo Campo and Emma Roberts is the girl, Nikki Angioli. (In real life he is 10 years older than she.) When Nikki has to return home to change her visa from student to work she and Leo, after 5 years apart, rekindle their old friendship. And it looks like there is a lot more there.
All the actors are fine here, the director made "Mystic Pizza" all those years ago with Julia Roberts, plus others like "Miss Congeniality", so there is some of that sensibility in this movie. Some scenes were irritating, with the anger and yelling, some acting was over the top, but overall it is an entertaining little movie.
Two families are in the pizza business together, a boy and girl from each family grow up together as best friends. As young adults she goes off to culinary school in London, where she becomes one of the young stars with the opportunity to start a new restaurant. He stays home, works in the pizza shop, and has an apartment above the local bar where he also works.
Meanwhile the two families had a big falling out, they now have two competing pizza shops next to each other, and generally do not associate with the other family. This creates additional interest when the two old grandparents start to have affection for each other.
Hayden Christensen is the boy, Leo Campo and Emma Roberts is the girl, Nikki Angioli. (In real life he is 10 years older than she.) When Nikki has to return home to change her visa from student to work she and Leo, after 5 years apart, rekindle their old friendship. And it looks like there is a lot more there.
All the actors are fine here, the director made "Mystic Pizza" all those years ago with Julia Roberts, plus others like "Miss Congeniality", so there is some of that sensibility in this movie. Some scenes were irritating, with the anger and yelling, some acting was over the top, but overall it is an entertaining little movie.
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Details
- Release date
- Countries of origin
- Official site
- Languages
- Also known as
- Khu Phố Little Italy
- Filming locations
- 304 College St., Toronto, Ontario, Canada(Pizza Napoli and Vince's Pizza)
- Production companies
- See more company credits at IMDbPro
Box office
- Budget
- CA$8,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $990,230
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $283,399
- Aug 26, 2018
- Gross worldwide
- $1,362,536
- Runtime1 hour 42 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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