Which Brings Me to You (2023)
Starring Lucy Hale, Nat Wolff, John Gallagher Jr., Britne Oldford, Genevieve Angelson, Alexander Hodge, Ward Horton, Marceline Hugot, Laura Kai Chen, Mitzi Akaha, Chase Liefeld, Avery Cole, Jamie McRae, Michael Mulheren
IHBM7.75Very good
Two romantic burnouts, Jane and Will, are immediately drawn to each other at a mutual friends wedding. After a disastrous hookup in the coatroom, the two spend the next 24 hours together, trading candid confessions of messy histories and heartbreak, on the off chance that this fling might be the real thing.
My review · Reviewed 02/12/2024
I think there needs to be a category for rom-coms that transcend the traditional meaning behind the label. While the movie starts off innocently enough (an almost-hookup at a wedding), what follows is deeply intimate. The characters bond by sharing their past mistakes and often wonder if it left them broken. I don't know if this is meant to be metaphorical or not - maybe the point was to show that our histories (for better or worse) make us who we are today. Either way, it doesn't matter. I thought that it was a fresh take on dating and the "are we broken" question. I don't know if this works with any other leads as they had ridiculous chemistry. At the end of the day it is another movie in the rom-com bin, but I could have watched it again when it ended and that is one of the highest compliments that I could pay a movie.