When in Rome

When in Rome is a 2002 family adventure in which twin sisters Charli and Leila Hunter travel to the Italian capital for a summer internship at a major fashion company run by international businessman Derek Hanson. What begins as a dream opportunity quickly goes wrong, and when the girls lose their places in the programme, they set out to understand why. Along the way they explore Rome, pursue their own clothing designs and become involved with people they meet in the city.

The film was directed by Steve Purcell from a screenplay by Michael Swerdlick, and produced by Natan Zahavi and Neil Steinberg for Tapestry Films, Dualstar Productions and Dualstar Entertainment Group. Ashley Olsen plays Leila and Mary-Kate Olsen plays Charli, the twins whose off-screen partnership carried several of their films. The supporting cast includes Leslie Danon, Julian Stone, Michelangelo Tommaso and Ilenia Lazzarin. Twenty-one performers and forty crew members are credited.

Running 94 minutes, the film sits within the Olsen sisters' run of direct-to-video and television features made around the same period. Audience response has been modest: on IMDb it holds 4.7 out of 10 from roughly 5,300 votes, while on TMDB it has 6 out of 10 from far fewer, about 341. The gap between the larger and smaller samples suggests the higher figure comes from a narrower, more favourable group of viewers.