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In Theaters Now
- 2024
- R
- Amazon Prime Video
- 1 h 55 m
- 2024
- R
- Amazon Prime Video
- 1 h 55 m
Summary While chaperoning her teenage daughter's trip to Coachella, Solène (Anne Hathaway), a 40-year-old single mother, begins an unexpected romance with 24-year-old Hayes Campbell (Nicholas Galitzine), the lead singer of August Moon, the hottest boy band on the planet.
Directed By: Michael Showalter
Written By: Robinne Lee, Michael Showalter, Jennifer Westfeldt
In Theaters Now
- 2024
- R
- Amazon Prime Video
- 1 h 55 m
- 2024
- R
- Amazon Prime Video
- 1 h 55 m
The Idea of You
67
5.3
Where to Watch
Summary While chaperoning her teenage daughter's trip to Coachella, Solène (Anne Hathaway), a 40-year-old single mother, begins an unexpected romance with 24-year-old Hayes Campbell (Nicholas Galitzine), the lead singer of August Moon, the hottest boy band on the planet.
Directed By: Michael Showalter
Written By: Robinne Lee, Michael Showalter, Jennifer Westfeldt
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 36 Critic Reviews
67
67% Positive
24 Reviews
24 Reviews
33% Mixed
12 Reviews
12 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 36 Critic Reviews
67
67% Positive
24 Reviews
24 Reviews
33% Mixed
12 Reviews
12 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
It’s a warm, approachable movie that you’ll get blissfully lost in.
This romcom offers a heady slice of appealing escapism fuelled by the chemistry between its two leads.
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 48 User Ratings
5.3
48% Positive
23 Ratings
23 Ratings
13% Mixed
6 Ratings
6 Ratings
40% Negative
19 Ratings
19 Ratings
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 48 User Ratings
5.3
48% Positive
23 Ratings
23 Ratings
13% Mixed
6 Ratings
6 Ratings
40% Negative
19 Ratings
19 Ratings
Perhaps I loved this film because it reminded me of a time when life was an adventure. I suspect the audience for this film is in their forties or fifties, still loves to dance, travel, have the occasional midnight liaison with that cute younger guy.. imagine being a grown up, with an almost grown child, and getting that call at midnight. And why not? I loved this movie.
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Anne Hathaway como sempre maravilhosa! Filme bem gostosinho de ver, apesar dos clichês de sempre trouxe algo novo.
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Directed by Michael Showalter without too much sentimentality or cheese, the guilty-pleasure rom-com (emphasis on rom) is elevated by Hathaway’s layered performance as a swept-off-her-feet California mother that goes well beyond the confines of its supermarket pulp storyline.
More than once, I was struck by how authentically 40 Solène seemed to me — a woman capable of making her own decisions, even ones she thinks might be ill-advised — and how weirdly rare it is to see that kind of character in a movie.
Anne Hathaway basically saves it from itself.
With Hathaway at its centre, The Idea of You is on far surer footing, in small moments almost threatening to be something far greater but settling into being perfectly acceptable instead, a plane movie par excellence.
It’s stale, a relic from another time that’s strenuously updated and forced into 2024.
The plot for this film is as generic as the title, so it's up to the production to make it worth watching. Anne Hathaway plays a single mom who runs a successful gallery and just turned 40. She "meets cute" the 24-year-old lead singer of a popular boy band (Nicholas Galitzine) and the romance begins. Of course, the conflict between their ages forms the core of the conflict. Luckily, Galitzine is continually charming and Hathaway is delightful. Their chemistry clicks from the start and their relationship creates a compelling romcom. This movie is strictly by-the-numbers with average dialogue, but the performances boost it to a sweet little charmer.
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Feels and looks like a mature Nickelodeon film. Very didactic. And although the main leads are not bad, the lack of chemistry is evident. Coachella scenes are cringe af. This should've been 90 minutes.
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Very foreseeable and boringin my opinion. I didnt really like the songs either. I love both Anne and Nick but this movie was just not it. It felt like a 14 year old wrote the script
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No particularly romantic, dramatic, or funny in any memorable way, it mostly just meanders through its stale and straightforward plot.
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