Love Is All There Is

A well-intentioned comedy that's full of heart but just isn't very funny. Set on City Island, an isolated speck of land that's nominally part of the Bronx, the setup is simple: Two loudly Italian families of rival caterers -- the Cappamezzas (Joseph Bologna and Lanie Kazan) and the Malacicis (Paul Sorvino and Barbara Carrera) -- are thrown into a tizzy when young Rosario Cappamezzo (Nathaniel Marston) and Gina Malacici (Angelina Jolie) fall in love. This contemporary gloss on Romeo and Juliet resolves itself not in sword fights or rumbles, but in a lot of very noisy carrying-on. Some viewers will doubtless be amused, but it will strike others as pandering to...