(courtesy BRIT + CO via Yahoo)
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Free-spirited Poppy (Emily Bader) and routine-loving Alex (Tom Blyth) have been unlikely best friends for a decade, living in different cities but spending every summer vacation together. The careful balance of their friendship is put to the test when they begin to question what has been obvious to everyone else — could they actually be the perfect romantic match? People We Meet On Vacation is directed by American writer / filmmaker Brett Haley, director of the films The New Year, I’ll See You in My Dreams, The Hero, Hearts Beat Loud, All the Bright Places, and All Together Now previously. The screenplay is written by Yulin Kuang and Amos Vernon & Nunzio Randazzo. Based on the book of the same name by Emily Henry. Produced by Wyck Godfrey, Marty Bowen, Isaac Klausner. (courtesy First Showing)
I adore rom-coms and so, if you know the books of Emily Henry, who writes romantic comedies with heart, humour and a serious dollop of meaningful humanity, it makes perfect sense that I love her stories too.
Interestingly, while I have read many of her later novels – nothing against the earlier ones; I just dived in midstream and I haven’t had time to fill in the blanks just yet – I haven’t read this one so, rather happily the book and the movie await me.
It will be a lovely way to kick of the new year when you’re supposed to be all bright-eyed and bushy-tailed and optimistic to the max; that’s not always the case (oh the pressure to be buoyant!) but a film like this could be just what the getting-the-year-off-to-a-new-start doctor ordered.
People We Meet on Vacation premieres on Netflix on 9 January.