Made in Italy is a 2020 comedy-drama film written and directed by James D'Arcy (in his feature directorial debut).

He decides to buy the gallery by selling the old Italian home he owns with his estranged father, Robert, a famous artist.

The house belonged to Jack's mother and Robert's wife, an Italian woman who died in a car accident when he was young.

Jack takes Robert with him to Italy and tells him he needs the money to buy the gallery from Ruth's parents.

Robert and Jack befriend some of the locals including Natalia and invite them to a party at the house.

After Natalia and her daughter help with the renovations, Robert tells her that after his wife died, he sent Jack away to boarding school to keep him away from all the reminders of his mother.

Later, they talk about her for the first time, sharing memories of her, and Robert begins crying, recounting what happened the day she died.

Robert admits he cannot give up the house, and Jack accuses him of never having any intention to sell, and returns to England.

In October 2018, it was announced Liam Neeson and Micheál Richardson had joined the cast of the film, with James D'Arcy directing from a screenplay he wrote.

[11] It was released on video on demand as well as in limited theaters in the United States on 7 August 2020.

[12] In its debut weekend, Made in Italy grossed $34,400 from 111 theatres, and was also the second-most rented film on Apple TV and the iTunes Store.

[13][14] In its second weekend the film finished third on Apple TV's chart and fourth on Spectrum's.

[5] Most critics' gripes centered around the story and screenplay; Ryan Lattanzio of IndieWire wrote that the "treacly slog" of the script betrayed the "storied talent" of Neeson and the "promising gifts" of Richardson,[16] and Peter Travers of Rolling Stone referred to it as a "mawkish tale" of grief and healing.