Every week, Netflix unveils its Top 10 lists for the week before, ranking TV shows and movies by viewership. This week, the Vince Vaughn film Nonnas has grabbed the No. 1 spot on the top 10 list, and judging from my latest group chat with my mom and her friends, the film is getting high approval ratings from the very demographic in its title, the Italian nonnas.
I know this because my own mother is a nonna (she’s Nana, officially), and judging from our weekend group chat, she and her tight-knit group of friends (also included in said chat) watched this movie as soon as it premiered, and they loved it. It’s no coincidence that the movie, which is essentially a love letter to one man’s mom and grandmother, was released on Mother’s Day weekend.
In the film, Vaughn plays Joe, a Brooklyn man whose mother has recently passed away. Joe finds comfort in re-creating
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