“We’re not those people.”
synopsis
Longtime college friends Ben and Alice find themselves drowning in wedding invitations over the course of a single summer. To survive the awkwardness of attending dozens of ceremonies alone, they agree to be each other’s “plus one.” What begins as a practical pact—free drinks, built-in dance partner, no small talk with strangers—gradually exposes unresolved feelings, insecurities, and the complicated overlap between friendship and romance.
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mini-review
Written and directed by Jeff Chan and Andrew Rhymer, this feels like a millennial corrective to glossy rom-com mythmaking. Maya Erskine brings raw emotional volatility, while Jack Quaid plays charming immaturity with surprising vulnerability. The film doesn’t rely on fate or fairy tales—it leans into discomfort, bad timing, drunken honesty, and the fear of adulthood. It’s messy in a way that feels contemporary and earned.
What distinguishes it from earlier “friends to lovers” stories is that it doesn’t romanticize dysfunction. It acknowledges how easily friendship can be destabilized when emotional clarity lags behind attraction. The humor is sharp, sometimes awkward, but the emotional turns feel honest rather than engineered.
A summer evening, slightly too much champagne, and the uncomfortable realization that adulthood is here.
Absurdist's Corner
The emotional stamina required to attend that many weddings in one season would break most humans long before the romance does.
fun facts
The film premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and gained a following largely through word of mouth.
Maya Erskine’s performance was widely praised for balancing humor and volatility.
The wedding-after-wedding structure cleverly mirrors real-life social pressure in one’s late twenties and early thirties.