2024 · music · comedy · romance
The Idea of You
Directed by Michael Showalter1h 56m2024
40-year-old single mom Solène begins an unexpected romance with 24-year-old Hayes Campbell, the lead singer of August Moon, the hottest boy band on the planet. As they begin a whirlwind romance, it isn't long before Hayes' superstar status poses unavoidable challenges to their relationship, and Solène soon discovers that life in the glare of his spotlight might be more than she bargained for.
Our read: The Idea of You (2024) reads as a cosy, steady, inventive music · comedy · romance entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, steady, gentle music / comedy, inventive in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, tender.
- cosy
- gentle
- redemptive
- tender
- funny
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