Top 3 scenes where Regé-Jean Page carries wooden crates in 'You, Me & Tuscany'

"You, Me & Tuscany" offers a few rom-com laughs and gorgeous Tuscan scenery. But one aspect that stands out most is how many times actor Regé-Jean Page is seen carrying around wooden crates.

Seriously, it's a lot.

Whether it's wine, produce, or some other thing, chances are that if Page's character Michael is on screen, he has a wooden crate under his arm as he walks across the room. While I don't encourage unhealthy behavior, someone could turn this into a pretty good drinking game.

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Given that it's Regé-Jean Page, these are the most handsomely packaged crates in the history of film. I mean, let's be real here. This man comes with chiseled abs, a charming smile, an English accent, and is bringing you food and wine. Who in their right mind wouldn't lock this down?!

Before I dive into the particulars of the movie, here are my top three scenes where Page is carrying crates in "You, Me & Tuscany":

• Delivering a wooden box with wine to a shop owner in his small Tuscan town.
• Bringing fresh vegetables from the market to the family restaurant.
• Delivering wine to a family gathering.
• Honorable mention: While it's not a wooden crate, he also makes a late-night delivery of fresh-cooked food to the main character, Anna.

"You, Me & Tuscany" centers on Anna (Halle Bailey), who took her mother's death one year ago quite hard. She dropped out of culinary school and now makes ends meet as a house sitter in New York City. However, with few personal boundaries, she engages in behavior that comes close to identity theft. So, the house sitting gig isn't working out so well either. She randomly meets handsome Matteo (Lorenzo de Moor) one night. Matteo is at odds with his family, who want him to go into the family restaurant business in their small Tuscan town. He'd rather live in New York. On top of that, he owns a villa back home that just sits empty. Since she has become accustomed to making bad decisions, Anna decides to fly to Italy and stay at Matteo's empty house.

But the house isn't so empty. Matteo's family checks on it and finds Anna. One thing leads to another and the family mistakenly believes that Anna is Matteo's fiancée. It's a lie that she doesn't know how to get out of. Things get more complicated when she meets Matteo's gorgeous brother/cousin Michael (Regé-Jean Page) and feelings start to emerge as this rom-com builds up to an inevitable reveal.

"You, Me & Tuscany" is directed by Kat Coiro ("Marry Me") and produced by Will Packer who has been behind previous comedies, such as "Night School" and "Girls Trip."

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Much of "You, Me & Tuscany" is a boilerplate rom-com. Two people meet, they don't like each other at first, a small town is involved, and after a serious moment of drama, love overcomes. But there is something even more familiar about this movie that goes beyond rom-com formulas. If you've ever seen "While You Were Sleeping," you'll understand why.

Despite a few tweaks here and there (and the fact the film states it is based on an original idea from husband and wife team Ryan and Kristin Engle ), "You, Me & Tuscany" is a modern copy of "While You Were Sleeping," starring Sandra Bullock and Bill Pullman.

The core story is repeated in "You, Me & Tuscany." A young woman is stuck in life, absent family connections, and has a crush on a man who soon disappears from the story for a brief time. After the crush's family comes to believe she is the guy's fiancée, she rolls with it. But as she digs herself deeper into the lie, and falls for the brother, she is welcomed into the family and feels the warmth she has been missing all this time.

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Christmastime Chicago is switched out for a summertime festival in Tuscany. A jerk brother in a coma is switched out for a jerk brother who is out of the country. The other brother passionate about furniture making is switched out with another brother passionate about wine making. A father who passed away a year prior is switched out with a mother who passed away a year prior. There's more, but you get the idea.

If you are a fan of 1990s rom-com era, which gave us movies like "While You Were Sleeping," you may like this modern rendition.

"You, Me & Tuscany" is a rom-com after all, so there is a certain level of accepting the fiction, no matter how odd or unbelievable. But the film does leave random curiosities laying around. What's up with the pet pig? How does a small-town family whose income is from a small restaurant afford multiple villas and sports cars? Is Michael the only person who works at that winery? And if so, how they heck does he have time to be carrying around so many wooden crates?

These questions aren't what is important. As with most rom-coms, the story is all about the main character, Anna. Everyone from the family, eccentric pals (her friend back home), to even her cab driver, are hyper-focused on Anna's life.

It is surprising that this movie is being shown in movie theaters instead of going straight to streaming. With Hallmark alone pumping out these movies, not to mention Netflix and others getting in on the trend, rom-coms are so overproduced they rarely rise to the level of a movie theater. And while "You, Me & Tuscany" manages some laughs from quite unbelievable scenarios and characters, it is still a formulaic rom-com, and somewhat of a remake, that could be shown alongside other small-town love stories.

"You, Me & Tuscany"

2.5/5 stars

Screen or stream? Stream. That isn't a statement on the quality of the film. It will get laughs, but it doesn't set itself apart from the countless other rom-coms that go straight to streaming these days.

Rated PG-13