You, Me & Tuscany

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Not suitable under 12, parental guidance to 12 (adult themes, sexual references, coarse language, lack of interest for younger viewers)

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This topic contains:

  • overall comments and recommendations
  • details of classification and consumer advice lines for You, Me & Tuscany
  • a review of You, Me & Tuscany completed by the Australian Council on Children and the Media (ACCM) on 14 April 2026.

Overall comments and recommendations

Children under 12 Not suitable due to themes, sexual references and lack of interest.
Children aged 12 Parental guidance recommended due to themes and sexual references.
Children aged 13 and over Ok for this age group.

About the movie

This section contains details about the movie, including its classification by the Australian Government Classification Board and the associated consumer advice lines. Other classification advice (OC) is provided where the Australian film classification is not available.

Name of movie: You, Me & Tuscany
Classification: PG
Consumer advice lines: Mild sexual references and coarse language
Length: 105 minutes

ACCM review

This review of the movie contains the following information:

A synopsis of the story

After the death of her mother, Anna (Halle Bailey) drops out of college before completing her chef’s diploma and drifts from one job to another. She’s working as a house sitter in New York when the owner comes home unexpectedly and finds Anna dressed in her clothes. She is instantly dismissed and is at a loss at what to do with her life. Her best friend Claire (Aziza Scott) encourages her to live her passion. Then, an unexpected encounter in a bar with a Tuscan man called Matteo (Lorenzo de Moor) leads her to travelling to Tuscany and living in his empty villa.

There she meets Matteo’s family, his mother Gabriella (Isabella Ferrari) and sister Francesca (Stella Peccolo), who assume she must be Matteo’s fiancé. Anna doesn’t dispute this and is welcomed into the Costa family with gusto. Anna has to live with the deception, which she tries to own up to but consistently fails. Meanwhile, she meets Michael (Rege-John Page) a neighbouring wine maker and adopted brother to Matteo. The attraction between them grows until Matteo turns up and the truth finally comes out.

Themesinfo

Children and adolescents may react adversely at different ages to themes of crime, suicide, drug and alcohol dependence, death, serious illness, family breakdown, death or separation from a parent, animal distress or cruelty to animals, children as victims, natural disasters and racism. Occasionally reviews may also signal themes that some parents may simply wish to know about.

Romance; Travel; Tuscany; Food and Wine.

Use of violenceinfo

Research shows that children are at risk of learning that violence is an acceptable means of conflict resolution when violence is glamourised, performed by an attractive hero, successful, has few real life consequences, is set in a comic context and / or is mostly perpetrated by male characters with female victims, or by one race against another.

Repeated exposure to violent content can reinforce the message that violence is an acceptable means of conflict resolution. Repeated exposure also increases the risks that children will become desensitised to the use of violence in real life or develop an exaggerated view about the prevalence and likelihood of violence in their own world.

There is some violence in this movie, including:

  • Anna nearly gets hit by a delivery van which swerves in front of her.
  • Anna tries to escape through a window. She climbs down a drain pipe which bends over and she falls to the ground.
  • Michael punches Matteo in the face and a fight breaks out between them.

Material that may scare or disturb children

Under fiveinfo

Children under five are most likely to be frightened by scary visual images, such as monsters, physical transformations.

  • Nothing particularly scary or disturbing for this age group.

Aged five to eightinfo

Children aged five to eight will also be frightened by scary visual images and will also be disturbed by depictions of the death of a parent, a child abandoned or separated from parents, children or animals being hurt or threatened and / or natural disasters.

  • Nothing particularly scary or disturbing for this age group.

Aged eight to thirteeninfo

Children aged eight to thirteen are most likely to be frightened by realistic threats and dangers, violence or threat of violence and / or stories in which children are hurt or threatened.

In addition to the above-mentioned violent scenes, there are some scenes in this movie that could scare or disturb children aged eight to thirteen, including the following:

  • Anna’s Mum died just before she graduated as a chef, causing her to end her chosen career.
  • Michael’s parents were killed in a car crash and subsequently, the Costa family adopted him.
  • Matteo’s father has a fall and is seen in hospital with a bandage around his head.

Thirteen and overinfo

Children over the age of thirteen are most likely to be frightened by realistic physical harm or threats, molestation or sexual assault and / or threats from aliens or the occult.

  • Nothing further noted.

Product placement

  • None noted.

Sexual references

There are some sexual references in this movie, including:

  • Francesca tells Anna that she’s having an affair. She says “having a side piece is the key to a healthy marriage”.
  • Francesca makes a suggestive gesture while saying, ‘having someone to do it with’.
  • Matteo’s Nonna tells Anna, ‘she will make such beautiful grandchildren for me’.

Nudity and sexual activity

There is some nudity and sexual activity in this movie, including:

  • Anna and Matteo go to his hotel apartment. Matteo half undresses but falls asleep from jetlag before anything happens.
  • Michael takes his shirt off to cover Anna from the sprinklers in the vineyard. She admires his muscly body.
  • Anna wears a lot of revealing outfits.
  • Matteo and Isabella (his former fiancé) kiss passionately.
  • Anna and Michael kiss passionately.

Use of substances

There is some use of substances in this movie, including:

  • Drinking alcohol throughout the movie at various venues.
  • Anna and Michael drink a lot while wine tasting and she becomes quite tipsy.

Coarse language

There is some coarse language in this movie, including:

  • What the hell
  • Bitch
  • Oh God
  • Jerk
  • Arse
  • Black arse
  • Holy shit
  • Jesus
  • Screw you
  • For God’s sake.

In a nutshell

You, Me & Tuscany is a romantic comedy set in the very beautiful setting of Tuscany. It is a light-hearted movie with little violence and nothing scary, however, due to its themes and language, it is more suited to teens and adults.

The main messages from this movie are to live the life you want to live and stop pretending to be someone else; and also, not to be defined by our mistakes but to learn from them.

Values in this movie that parents may wish to reinforce with their children include:

  • The importance of family
  • Owning up to our mistakes
  • Forgiveness
  • Following your heart
  • Friendship.

This movie could also give parents the opportunity to discuss with their children attitudes and behaviours, and their real-life consequences, such as:

  • Anna makes a lot of poor choices after the death of her mother. Parents could talk about the long term effects the death of a loved one can have and how we should honour their memory.
  • Anna lies to the Costa family but regrets doing so and seeks their forgiveness. Parents could talk about the importance of owning up to mistakes we make and how to move forward from them.