An indie romantic comedy celebrates Italian-American culture. The movie was
shot on location in Boston's Little Italy.

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It's an Italian love fest in a new romantic comedy called
"Everybody Wants to Be Italian".
    The movie is about fixating on past relationships and not grabbing
opportunities that lie in front of you. Jake Bianski, played by Jay Jablonski,
is a fishmonger in Boston who is pining over his ex-girlfriend who broke up
with him eight years ago. Upon the insistence of his friends, Jake goes to an
Italian singles event where he meets Marisa. 
    "Because he has allowed himself to stay in the past, when he
starts to date the character of "Marisa" he really doesn't have any
game whatsoever. I mean he does everything wrong and says everything
wrong," said Jablonski. 
    The film is an ode to all things Italian. Jake pretends to be be of
Italian descent to woo Marisa and much of the film was shot on location in
North End, Boston's Little Italy.  Cerina Vincent, who plays Marisa and is
Italian-American, says it is obvious why everybody wants to be Italian. 
    "Italians are passionate and the sense of family and the sense of
celebration, we celebrate everything, and the food. A lot of my non-Italian
friends have always asked if they could come over to our house - on any
regular Wednesday just because we're celebrating something."
said Vincent.
    Writer and director Jason Todd Ipson credits his Italian wife for the
title of the film because it is what she said to him when first meeting him in
Boston. Ipson wrote the movie specifically for Jablonski after casting him in
his previous film "Unrest". Ipson says he initially wrote Jablonski
off because he missed two auditions and was late for the third because of
other commitments.  But his opinion soon changed.
    "He came into the room and I had no interest whatsoever and he
blew me away. He really is the real deal and so I thought, while I was on
"Unrest", I've got to take advantage of this, this guy should be a
gigantic star so why not create a vehicle for him to get him there," said
Ipson.
    The movie mixes genres - it is both a romantic comedy and a buddy film
with John Kapelos, John Enos III and Penny Marshall rounding out the cast. The
film opens in theatres in North America on September 5.