NONNAS

Name: NONNAS
Item: NONNAS
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"Serving Family"

Family Content: -1 Caution advised for older children, including teenagers, and sensitive adults.

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What You Need To Know:

NONNAS is a heartwarming comedy on Netflix. It tells the story of a man named Joe who opens an Italian restaurant, with grandmothers (Nonnas) as chefs, to honor his late mother. Inspired by the real-life story of Jody Scaravella and the restaurant Enoteca Maria, located in Staten Island, New York, the movie is a celebration of family and food. The touching storyline is made sweeter knowing that Joe and his Nonnas actually serve love to the customers on a daily basis.

NONNAS is a high quality, charming movie with lots of heart. It has a fun soundtrack and amazing performances from the cast. The movie has a strong Christian, biblical, moral worldview with very strong pro-capitalist elements. Characters support one another, pray with Scripture, and forgive each other. NONNAS also stresses the importance of family, community and generational relationships. However, there are some light Romantic elements where characters talk about having feelings in their guts and beauty being a feeling. NONNA also has 10 mostly light obscenities, one strong profanity, a lesbian character, and brief drunkenness. So, MOVIEGUIDE® advises caution for older children.

Content:

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Dominant Worldview and Other Worldview Content/Elements:
Strong Christian, biblical, moral worldview with very strong pro-capitalist content, and strong Pro-American elements, in a Roman Catholic context and setting, promotes family, community and friends supporting others through grief, with mentions of baptism, communion, miracles, a character wears a cross necklace, plus there’s a statue of Mary and mention of the rosary (which may turn off some Protestants), and a character prays to St. Pedro Pio but closes the prayer in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost, mitigated by some Romantic elements where characters talk about having a feeling in their gut, loving their work and beauty being a feeling, light feminist content where women discuss not being invisible as they age and celebrating their beauty, and mitigated by some immoral and unbiblical politically correct or “woke” homosexual elements where a woman confesses she loved a woman and left the convent because the Catholic Church condemns it as a sin it she returns to the Church, and nun claims, “It’s not easy to live in a world who rejects who you are”;
Foul Language:
10 obscenities (including four “d” words and six “h” words), one GD profanity, three light profanities, and some crude or rude comments;
Violence:
Light violence with an elderly woman throwing dried pasta at cook, a woman smacks her husband's hand when he reaches for food, two women spit at each other, two elderly people get into a food fight, and an elderly woman hits a man with her purse twice;
Sex:
No implied or depicted sex but some pro-homosexual content such as a woman mentions her lesbian love for a woman that forced her to quit her life as a Roman Catholic nun, a woman grabs another woman’s hand to touch her covered breast and grabs her own breast when discussing breast implants, people greet each other with kisses on the cheek, and an unmarried couple share a kiss;
Nudity:
No explicit nudity but female characters wear low-cut shirts that show cleavage, and one female character stirs food while the camera focuses on her breasts;
Alcohol Use:
Alcohol use prominent as characters often drink wine, toast with alcohol, and offer bottles of alcohol as gifts, a young boy’s hand reaches for a glass of red wine, but an adult’s hand smacks it away, elderly women drink shots of Limoncello, one character gets drunk and talks about not being hungover because she drank water, a character talks about sneaking out of prom to buy booze and pours liquor into a bowl of punch from a flask, a bar shows bottles of wine on the wall, and an elderly woman grabs a bottle while sipping red wine from a glass, and customers drink wine and liquor throughout;
Smoking and/or Drug Use and Abuse:
No smoking or drugs; and,
Miscellaneous Immorality:
A married couple bicker and call each other names, two elderly women argue but it’s lighthearted, co-workers mislead and lie to the manager to cover up for one character being late to work, a health inspector bribes people to pass inspection but is rebuked, one woman talks negatively about marriage, and a character admits to being estranged from her family but calls her daughter in the end.

More Detail:

NONNAS is a heartwarming comedy streaming on Netflix. It tells the story of a man named Joe who opens an Italian restaurant with grandmothers (Nonnas) as chefs in honor of his late mother. Inspired by the real-life story of Jody Scaravella and the restaurant Enoteca Maria, located in Staten Island, New York, the movie is a celebration of family and food. The touching storyline is made even sweeter knowing that Joe and his Nonnas actually serve love to their customers on a daily basis.

NONNAS is high quality with a fun soundtrack and amazing performances from the main cast. The movie has a strong Christian, biblical, moral worldview where characters support one another, pray with Scripture, and forgive each other. NONNAS stresses the importance of family, community and generational relationships. It does have some light Romantic elements where characters talk about having a feeling in their gut and saying that beauty is a feeling. Also, NONNAS has some foul language, some suggestive material, a homosexual character, and people consistently drinking alcohol, with brief drunkenness. So, MOVIEGUIDE suggests caution for older children.

NONNAS opens with a flashback to Brooklyn when Joe is a young boy spending time in the kitchen with his mom and grandmother, Nonna, as they prepare food for a neighborhood gathering. These opening scenes shine as they set the stage for a delightful movie about family and the joy of sharing love through cooking. Fast forward and Joe is an adult attending his mother’s funeral. Feeling lost and unhappy at his job, his friends convince him to use his mom’s insurance settlement in a way that would honor her.

Joe purchases a space and decides to open an Italian restaurant that employs grandmas as chefs so people can feel the love from the memories of their own Nonnas’s cooking. After inviting his mom’s closet friend and hairdresser into the fold, he places an ad on Craigslist and assembles his team of elderly chefs. Joe and the Nonnas must overcome the challenges of opening a new restaurant, all while learning the importance of family and community along the way.

NONNAS is a charming movie with lots of heart. The main cast delivers amazing performances. However, the movie does contain suggestive moments, some foul language, and characters drink alcohol on several occasions. One character admits to being a nun that left the convent after falling in love with a woman, although she’s shown returning to the church. NONNAS also has 10 obscenities, one strong profanity, some suggestive behavior, and brief drunkenness. So, MOVIEGUIDE® advises caution for older children

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Quality:

- Content: -1