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 To Rome With Love
A multi-narrative comedy, the film follows a number of people as they experience life in Rome. Jack (Jesse Eisenberg) is a young man who begins to fall in love with his girlfriend's best friend, Monica (Ellen Page), and is warned against it by a reappearing mentor (Alec Baldwin). Leopoldo is an ordinary, blue-collar man who one day wakes up to discover that he is the biggest celebrity in the city. Jerry (Allen) is a retired-and-hating-it opera director who discovers that his daughter's soon-to-be-father-in-law, Giancarlo, is a brilliant singer who can only show off his talent in the shower. Antonio and Milly are a young, recently married couple, who upon moving to the capital get separated and end up having entanglements with an escort (Penelope Cruz) and a famous actor, respectively. There isn't a single story in To Rome With Love that couldn't be just as well told or even better told in a city like Los Angeles or New York. A good number of the stories deal with the notion and obsession of celebrities, which is a major cultural epidemic in America, but Allen fails to put a spin on it that makes us understand why Italy is being used as the backdrop.
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