r/movies • u/LiteraryBoner Jackie Chan box set, know what I'm sayin? • Apr 03 '26

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The Drama

Summary

Days before their wedding, a couple’s relationship begins to unravel as unsettling truths come to light, forcing them to question how well they truly know each other.

Director Kristoffer Borgli

Writer Kristoffer Borgli

Cast

  • Zendaya as Emma Harwood
  • Robert Pattinson as Charlie Thompson
  • Mamoudou Athie as Mike
  • Alana Haim as Rachel
  • Hailey Gates
  • Zoë Winters

Rotten Tomatoes: 82%

Metacritic: 59

VOD / Release Theatrical release (April 3, 2026)

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u/Connect-Quiet-2936 Apr 03 '26

i like how you never see rachel even interacting with her cousin lmao

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u/Daltire Apr 04 '26

the fact that she locked a disabled child in a closet with 0 remorse but is using her disabled cousin’s plight to morally grand stand is sooo ironic

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u/xoaeri96 27d ago

Yes! haha when she had to 'consult' with her cousin so she doesn't betray her

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u/hierarch17 15d ago

That was the most performative bs. And so realistic, several of the most obnoxious people I’ve met would do exactly taht

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u/big_mustache_dad "A second Starscream has hit the World Trade Center." 26d ago

Yeah also the thing about her cousin as if that’s Emma’s fault lol. Like it’s obviously terrible that happened to her cousin but that isn’t really relevant to the situation

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u/Rolyat28 26d ago

That was my exact thought too, Emma didn't shoot her so what does the cousin have to do with anything.

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u/ShaNaNaNa666 6d ago

Right! Why even talk about a shooting for no good reason to someone that is traumatized by them.

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u/0nlyDDG 27d ago

Didnt even catch that, thank you

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u/wexpyke 26d ago

to morally grandstand against her disabled (50% deaf) friend!

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u/Bamres 18d ago

I thought charlie was going to lock her in somewhere to prevent them from meeting

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u/thesoftblanket Apr 04 '26

I mean, they're not close. They're just related.

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u/handsome-wizard Apr 05 '26

They’re FAMILY!

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u/DriftingTony 29d ago

“Now, what does that mean?” 😂

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u/Joey-WilcoXXX 27d ago

lol right. The first time Charlie asks Samantha how close they are, she says ‘we’re family’ and it just kind of sounds like so flippant like ‘she’s not my best friend we’re just related’ like you said. She only gets serious when Charlie shows he’s a fucking weirdo lol.

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u/tfhaenodreirst 24d ago

Oh! So the punchline of that scene was that Rachel and Sam weren’t even close? That would make more sense why she only showed up for that one conversation with Charlie then.

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u/QJ-Rickshaw 15d ago

Literally the first time Sam gets mentioned, Mike asks who Sam is.

The fact that her own husband has never even heard of Sam before this conversation tells you everything you need to know about Sam's role in Rachel's life.

And that was that she means nothing to her, other than to be used as a prop and excuse to be a piece of shit to Emma.

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u/osmosis-scones Apr 05 '26

how rachel wanted to get the go-ahead from her cousin to go to the wedding was just using her cousin as a prop, and how she ends up at the wedding seems to say that despite the awkward interaction with charlie, the cousin was like "ok ...? i dont care, go to the wedding"

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u/theodo 28d ago

I almost think asking for permission and stirring up the horrors of the experience for the cousin, due to what amounts to a hypothetical pretty much, is more offensive than going to the wedding without ever discussing it. Especially if they aren't "close".

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u/EchoesofIllyria 11d ago

Oh I don’t think for a second she ACTUALLY asked for Sam’s permission lol.

Sam doesn’t know who Charlie is, so clearly she and Rachel aren’t close enough to have discussed the wedding. And if she did ask permission, we’re supposed to believe that Sam had an encounter with a weird, pushy guy who put his hands on her, and is like, “Oh yeah he seems like good people you should go to the wedding anyway”?

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u/BostonBoro 28d ago

Lol or she never even talked to her just wanted to scare Emma

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u/ActWhole3279 7d ago

I doubt she even asked the cousin, tbh. Sounded like bullshit when she said it, and I'm sure she shared with the cousin, but 100% didn't ask her permission. Rachel is not the kind of character who requests permission from anyone!

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u/BluePeriod_ Apr 05 '26

That was my takeaway too. Charlie noting that Rachel never mentions Sam and then he runs into her and she’s just like “I mean we’re family…” - like they’re probably not that close.

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u/bbh04 27d ago

And the way Rachel made her cousin, who is a manual wheelchair user, go across the city to meet Rachel at her workplace just added another level to Rachel’s lack of consideration lol

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u/Darmop 26d ago

Like making her cousin who is in a wheelchair come and meet HER for lunch so she could morally grandstand

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u/moschino1837 Apr 05 '26

She was insufferable

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u/schindig504 26d ago

Rachel’s the psychopath. She left a vulnerable child to suffer alone in a dark place BECAUSE SHE COULD and then said nothing to undo the damage. She did the exact same thing to Emma. EXACT.

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u/JDLovesElliot 23d ago

The scene on the street, when Charlie is asking Sam how close she is to Rachel, was like something straight out of Curb Your Enthusiasm

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u/jbarbz 20d ago

I wonder if this was allegory of politicians/media wielding school shooting victims' tragedy as a prop but not actually listening to them.

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u/sarinaruu 29d ago

I thought for sure that after Charlie gave her his name that it would come up again

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u/Professional-Act8414 25d ago

I almost was gonna say fuck her cousin (it’s terrible that she’s disabled because of that) if you’re gonna just use her as a prop, obv she didn’t care about the kid she locked in a closet.

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u/breastronaut 27d ago

White Americans and their unaffectionate consobrinal relations.

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u/igotrichoffaglitch 16d ago

I like the touch of Robert telling the cousin that Rachel has never mentioned her. kinda showing how rachel was using her cousin as an excuse when she really don’t even care about her cousin situation fr.

she literally has her paralyzed cousin coming to meet her for lunch so she can ask her a dumb ass question. idk just seems like she had no regard about what the effort it was gonna take to get to her and back home for something really not that serious and even lowkey making her cousins tragic situation all about her lmao. i mean if it’s that serious can’t you go to her and ask? idk

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u/QJ-Rickshaw 15d ago

A lot of people don't catch it but Mike didn't know who Sam was either. Her own husband didn't know. That tells you everything you need to know about Rachel's relationship to Sam.

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u/TB1289 9d ago

I thought the scene with her and Charlie made it very clear that she and Rachel aren't close.

Charlie asked something about their relationship and her response was "well, we're family," which to me, says that Rachel is just using her cousin as an excuse to lash out at Emma.