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YOU, ME & TUSCANY

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A genuinely charming, pro-family rom-com — but screen it first.

2026PG-13105 minutesUniversal Pictures/Comcast

THE VERDICT What our ratings mean →

Worth the trip — mature teens and adults.

ENTERTAINMENT QUALITY ★★★★ 4 / 4 Breezy, funny, one of the year's most charming rom-coms.

FAMILY CONTENT Extreme Caution −2 on the +4 to −4 scale Extreme caution; a warm pro-family story wrapped in a fair amount of language and off-color humor.

CONTENT LEVELS NONE → HEAVY

Language Moderate

Violence Light

Sex Light

Nudity Light

BEST FOR Older teens and adults who enjoy romantic comedies and can watch past some crude humor.

NOT FOR Children or younger teens, or anyone avoiding profanity, innuendo, and a casual confession of infidelity.

CONTENT IN ONE LINE A fair amount of foul language, off-color jokes, an unmarried couple ready to sleep together, and a side character's confessed affair — set inside a genuinely redemptive, pro-family story.

Should You See It?

This is one of the more purely enjoyable romantic comedies Movieguide has seen in a while — breezy, funny, and built around characters worth rooting for, even the one who spends an act acting like a jerk. Better still, it lands on a real, heartwarming pro-family theme: people who lie to protect themselves are drawn, through a family that isn't even theirs, toward confession and forgiveness.

The caution rating is earned, though. Expect a fair amount of foul language (one f-word, plus many milder ones), off-color jokes and innuendo, an unmarried couple who intend to sleep together (interrupted by jet lag, not conviction), and a married side character who casually admits to cheating on her husband.

If you're an adult or older teen who enjoys a good rom-com and can watch past some crude comedy, this one genuinely delivers. If you're choosing for younger teens or kids, wait — or watch it yourself first.

The Story

NO SPOILERS — WE KEEP THE SURPRISES

After losing her mother, a brilliant chef, Anna walks away from culinary school and drifts through other people's lives as a New York City house-sitter. A chance meeting with Matteo, a young Italian businessman, sends her to his empty villa in Tuscany — where his family finds her before she can explain herself, and mistakes her for his fiancée. From there, a comedy of manners unfolds, complete with a formidable grandmother, a family restaurant, and a secret Anna can't decide whether to correct.

Is It Any Good?

Four stars means this rom-com clears the bar the genre usually stumbles over: it's actually funny, actually charming, and populated with characters worth spending two hours with — including Matteo, who behaves badly for a stretch without losing the audience's goodwill entirely. The Tuscan setting and the tangled family dynamics give the story its warmth, and the slow-build attraction between Anna and Michael carries real appeal. It's a genre picture that earns its four stars by simply doing the basics — likable people, real stakes, a satisfying ending — better than most of its peers.

The Worldview

At its heart, this is a moral story: a woman who lies to protect herself is drawn, through the warmth of a family that isn't hers, toward telling the truth and asking forgiveness. The underlying worldview is strongly pro-family — family relationships help heal a woman's own dysfunctional patterns — with real redemptive content once the lies come out. That's worth celebrating in a genre that often settles for less.

The film doesn't get everything right. Romantic feelings and a looser moral logic complicate the clarity — the unmarried couple who plan to sleep together, the innuendo played for laughs, the side character who confesses an affair without much weight given to the wrong of it. None of this is glorified, exactly, but it isn't squarely addressed either; it's simply part of the comic texture.

Still, the film's engine is a true one: the ache of a woman without a family of her own who finds herself, almost by accident, folded into one. Scripture names that longing directly — "God settles the solitary in a home" (Psalm 68:6) — and its remedy: honesty instead of deception. "Do not lie to one another" (Colossians 3:9). A rom-com that ends there is doing more good than most.

The Content Guide

The specifics — spoilers included by nature — so you can judge for your own family.

Content Summary ▲

(BB, C, Ro, LL, V, S, N, AA, M):

Dominant Worldview and Other Worldview Content/Elements ▼

Foul Language ▼

Violence ▼

Sex ▼

Nudity ▼

Alcohol Use ▼

Smoking and/or Drug Use and Abuse ▼

Miscellaneous Immorality ▼

Talk About It

Questions for the drive home, the dinner table, or the youth group.

Anna lies to Matteo's family rather than admit the truth right away, and the movie shows that lie costing trust before it's repaired. When have you let a small deception snowball rather than correct it early?

Colossians 3:9 · Proverbs 12:22

The film's warmest scenes happen around Matteo's family table, where an outsider is welcomed in almost like one of their own. What does your family do, practically, to make room for someone who doesn't yet belong?

Psalm 68:6 · Hebrews 13:2

Michael was adopted into this family after tragedy, and the film treats that adoption as an unqualified good. How does that earthly picture point to what Scripture says about our adoption into God's family?

Ephesians 1:5 · Romans 8:15

Anna and Matteo are ready to sleep together before marriage, and the film mostly plays it as a comic near-miss. How would you want your family to talk about a scene like that if you watched it together?

1 Corinthians 6:18 · Hebrews 13:4

The Final Word

This is a genuinely charming, funny rom-com with a real pro-family heart — and a fair amount of language and off-color content that means it's not for the whole family at once. So here's our answer: worth the trip — mature teens and adults. Looking for something the younger kids can join in on? Start with our latest family-friendly picks.

THE VERDICT Worth the trip — mature teens and adults.

F Filemaker Upload for the Movieguide® team · April 9, 2026

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HOW THIS REVIEW WORKS The verdict in 10 seconds. The reasons in 2 minutes. The full depth in 8. One answer, stated at the top and again at the end — and we never spoil the story. The Content Guide is the same detailed listing Movieguide® has always published.

Details

Starring

Halle Bailey, Regé-Jean Page, Lorenzo de Moor, Marco Calvani, Isabella Ferrari, Stefania Casini, Stella Pecollo, Paolo Sassanelli, Aziza Scott, Nia Vardalos

Director

Kat Coiro

Writer

Roy Engle

Producers

Will Packer, Johanna Byer

Executive Producers

Scott Putman

Distributor

Universal Pictures/Comcast

Genre

Romantic Comedy