Louise, an unfulfilled divorced woman with regrets, gets the chance to relive her past when she meets a young man who bears an uncanny resemblance, in name and appearance, to her high school sweetheart who died many years before.
Acting
Laura Linney's micro-expressions doing all the heavy lifting
Writing
Dialogue that actually sounds like educated people talking
Direction
Dylan Kidd lets moments breathe without explaining them
Director
Dylan Kidd
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Laura Linney and Paul Rudd reunited after The Object of My Affection (1998), making their May-December dynamic here even more disorienting.
The film's Columbia University setting isn't incidental—Kidd uses the admissions process as a metaphor for how we curate and sell our own histories, with Louise literally grading versions of her dead boyfriend's potential futures.
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