Mildly entertaining, but never deeply engaging; the sort of thing one expects from a "Masterpiece Theater" costume drama. It's the charming tale of a collection of ready-made English eccentrics dealing with the minor hardships of internment in war-time Italy. Things are not serious enough to give the film dramatic punch, and the whole thing is played too demurely to work as black comedy. The title really tells the whole story--yes, Mussolini is there, and all the horrors of fascism, but really, it's not so bad with a nice cuppa tea.
Review of Tea with Mussolini
