This movie is an insult to Sicilian families everywhere. The characters are nothing more than cartoonish caricatures of what some Anglo writers thinks Sicilians are like. They have no dignity, are greedy and insensitive. They don't even speak much Sicilian. They scream and yell at each other more like the Jersey Shore Italians on tv than any Sicilians I ever knew. I grew up in a large Sicilian family in a large Sicilian American community and don't recognize a single thing in this movie other than the statue of Jesus the kids break at the beginning and the plastic cover on the couch. I found the movie boring. The storyline wasn't believable and neither were the characters, even setting aside their inauthenticity. It was more like an Italian Monty Python movie than a heartwarming family story.
Review of Road to the Lemon Grove
