Jack and I enjoyed this fluffy story of a September-May relationship (she's 40, he's 24) with Anne Hathaway and Nicholas Galitzine playing a single mom and a boy band front man. It's not deep but the acting is good, including supporting roles by Reid Scott and Annie Mumolo, along with a cameo by Perry Mattfeld.
Michael Showalter directs and he and Jennifer Westfeldt adapted Robinne Lee's 2017 novel (in which the age gap was, I think, a little bigger).
30 minutes of Siddhartha Khosla's soundtrack can be streamed on Apple Music. There's another playlist which includes songs sung by Galitzine fronting August Moon, the fictional band in the movie. Neither includes Dance Hall Days by Wang Chung, which I enjoyed hearing again after all these years.
Hathaway and production designer Amy Williams collaborated on choosing the art displayed in Hathaway's gallery.
Hathaway was last blogged for Armageddon Time, Mumolo for Joy Ride, Showalter for The Eyes of Tammy Faye, Westfeldt for Friends with Kids, and Khosla for I Want You Back. Galitzine's resumé includes playing the handsome high school football player in Bottoms, though I failed to mention him in that post. Though Scott has dozens of credits, I know him best from 65 episodes of Veep, three of Black-ish, and twelve of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. Williams is no stranger to the business. And I mention Mattfeld because Jack and I particularly liked her work starring in 52 episodes of the thriller In the Dark,
Rotten Tomatoes' critics like the idea of this, averaging 81%, while its audiences are looking around for another idea at 66. We streamed it on June 25 on Prime with our subscription and it's also rentable.
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