| What sounds like a romantic comedy, or at least a wedding-based comedy, is actually a drama about awful people at a wedding. Audrey (Alicia Silverstone) is stressed. She’s turning 40 soon, her brother is about to be married, she has not yet met the bride-to-be, and her mother died a few years earlier. | 2020 Directed by: Amy Miller Gross Screenplay by: Amy Miller Gross Starring: Alicia Silverstone, Mathilde Ollivier | |
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Mature adaptation, limited humour. |
| Modern Persuasion is literally a modern Persuasion. A 21st century adaptation of the Jane Austen classic. The main themes of a smart, independent, successful woman looking for a second chance at love is reasonably well-suited to today’s world. Austen’s novel, her last, was well received for being mature, and despite the hackneyed plot points or predictable love interests, there is an air of maturity in this version. | 2020 Directed by: Alex Appel, Jonathan Lisecki Written by: Jonathan Lisecki, Barbara Radecki Based on the novel by Jane Austen Starring: Alicia Witt, Shane McRae | |
| I Propose We Never See Each Other Again After Tonight is a stunning achievement for a low-budget Canadian rom-com. Freshman actors pull off this simple story of two strangers meeting and taking a chance on each other to turn this film into a sometimes delightful, sometimes heartbreaking examination of a young relationship. | 2020 Directed by: Sean Garrity Screenplay by: Sean Garrity Starring: Hera Nalam, Kristian Jordan | |