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(director/writer: Michael Showalter screenwriters: Jennifer Westfeldt, centered on the book by Robinne Lee cinematographer: Jim Frohna editor: Peter Teschner songs: Siddhartha Khosla solid: Anne Hathaway (Solene Marchand), Nicholas Galitzine (Hayes), Ella Rubin (Izzy), Annie Mumolo (Tracy), Reid Scott (Daniel), Perry Mattfeld (Eva), Jordan Aaron Hall (Zeke), Mathilda Gianopoulos (Ga), Raymond Cham Jr. (Oliver), Jaiden Anthony (Adrian), Viktor White (Simon), Dakota Adan (Rory) Runtime: 116 MPAA Rating: R producers: Cathy Schulman, Gabrielle Union, Anne Hathaway, Robinne Lee, Eric Hayes, Michael Showalter, Jordana Mollick A Key Movie release 2024)
“Without Hathaway’s star energy would have been just another program rom-com.”
Reviewed by Dennis Schwartz
Michael Showalter (“The Big Unwell”/”Howdy, My Identify is Doris”) is director-writer of this rom-com. It’s a perky story of a whirlwind romance involving a 40-calendar year-previous divorced single mom, Solene (Anne Hathaway), who is an LA-primarily based artwork gallery proprietor, and the touchy but sweet heartthrob, the 24-yr-aged Hayes Campbell (Nicholas Galitzine), the direct singer of the August Moon, the most common rock team in the entire world.
It’s co-created by Jennifer Westfeldt and is dependent on the ebook by Robinne Lee. It plays out as a tale about fame, the new music sector, the tabloids and, most of all, a May possibly-December unconventional romance about working with an irreconcilable huge age hole.
Solene has a teenage daughter, Izzy (Ella Rubin), with her cheating ex-husband, Daniel (Reid Scott). When Daniel has a sudden operate emergency and can’t take Izzy and her close friends to the Coachella Music Pageant, Solène drops her solo camping weekend and can take the teenagers to the concert. That’s where she meets lover-boy backstage, who will become smitten with her and wins her around even though she attempts to resist his corny overtures.
When Izzy is off to summer season camp, Solene accompanies Hayes on the European leg of his band’s earth tour.
But the large age hole, the clash in values and currently being in the team’s publicity headlights are too considerably for the not likely romance to continue before it can get major.
The movie is excellent at obtaining Solene’s psychological responses when vilified in social media for thieving from the crib.
Hathaway shines in her efficiency. But the dewy-eyed really like tale with no Hathaway’s star electric power would have been just another regime rom-com.
The film’s original audio for August Moon, as composed by Savan Kotecha, showed some creativity. The handful of tunes designed for the movie, these types of as “I Obtained You,” “Guard Down,” and “Dance Right before We Wander,” insert anything beneficial.
It played at the SXSW.
REVIEWED ON 3/31/2024 Quality: C+