4.7
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
It Takes a Village (2026)
It Takes a Village (2026)
Overview
Polish comedy directed by Łukasz Kośmicki. Financial troubles lead Halina Madej to postpone her wedding to Jan Perzyna, drawing intervention from their village community. Stars Anna Seniuk as Halina, Artur Barciś as Jan, and Filip Gurłacz as Wojtek.
Starring Cast
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Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Leans Traditional
Political: Center
Diversity: Low
Family Values: Leans Traditional
Christianity: Positive
Judaism: Negative
Viewer Rating
4.7
Overview
Polish comedy directed by Łukasz Kośmicki. Financial troubles lead Halina Madej to postpone her wedding to Jan Perzyna, drawing intervention from their village community. Stars Anna Seniuk as Halina, Artur Barciś as Jan, and Filip Gurłacz as Wojtek.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
NetflixDetailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Leans Traditional
Primary
Financial hardship threatens a rural wedding, but the village's collective schemes to attract tourists and raise funds highlight solidarity and friendship as strengths, without advancing partisan ideologies. The narrative prioritizes apolitical themes of mutual support over any critique of systemic issues.
The film employs a predominantly white Polish cast in roles reflecting traditional rural European identities, without diverse recasting. It portrays community solidarity and family ties in a positive light, emphasizing unity in a small village without challenging conventional norms.
Secondary
The film depicts rural Polish family life with a domineering matriarch whose poor parenting causes estrangement, yet community and family rally to support her marriage and farm. Traditional structures like intergenerational care and collective obligation are affirmed amid generational tensions.
The film's village community embodies Christian values of solidarity and mutual aid, with traditions like the wedding ceremony reinforcing themes of support and dignity.
References to synagogue destruction appear in a trivialized historical anecdote tied to comedic mishaps, without acknowledging antisemitic pogroms or the Holocaust, reinforcing insensitivity toward Jewish suffering.
The film features no LGBTQ+ characters or themes.
No transgender characters or themes appear in the film. The narrative centers on a rural community's scheme involving fake alien crop circles to fund a disrupted wedding, emphasizing solidarity without addressing trans identity.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
The film presents an original story of a Polish village community aiding an elderly woman's wedding plans amid financial woes. No characters derive from source material, historical figures, or prior adaptations involving gender changes.
It Takes a Village presents original characters in a contemporary Polish village without adaptation from prior source material or historical figures, so no established racial baselines exist for any swaps.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
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4.9
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