There are worse things than watching beautiful people in Tuscany. Halle Bailey sparkles as Anna, the heroine of this fairy-tale romance. Regé-Jean Page doesn’t have much to do except smile and show his abs but he’s very good at that. You, Me & Tuscany is entirely by-the-numbers, from its movies-as-tourism approach to the big Italian family that owns a restaurant. But it is expertly directed by Kat Coiro and produced by Will Packer for maximum crowd-pleasing impact, offering the kind of pretty escapist fantasy that is especially appealing in these fraught times.
The rickety premise is set out in early scenes in New York, more slowly than it needs to be. Anna, an American at loose ends who has lost her last job housesitting, meets handsome Italian Matteo (Lorenzo De Moor) at a hotel bar. Through the kind of wacky misadventure that only happens in rom-coms and sitcoms, the
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