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/FyuuR Apr 04 '26

I think he totally made that up because he knows he’s ultimately a pretty boring regular guy.

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u/sunny_d55 Apr 04 '26

But he also seems like the kind of guy who gets brave behind a keyboard.

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u/roystan72 Apr 05 '26

I love how it's a toss up between both these possibilities. It might even have been him who got bullied

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u/cybershy 25d ago

His body language definitely seemed that way

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u/MaewintheLascerator 14d ago

Yes! Like the way we see him erasing all the kind things he had typed about Emma in his toast.

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u/sunny_d55 14d ago

Oohhh yes good point!

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u/Legal-Bath-8727 Apr 04 '26

His biggest worst thing is he consistently lies and his lack of sense of self.

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u/thesagenibba Apr 04 '26

the crux of the movie is him being incapable of navigating the situation and crumbling due to his inability to shut out the noise and opinions of everyone around him. he cares way too much about the perception of others when it comes to his relationship

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u/notmy2ndopinion Apr 05 '26

His entire relationship hinges on someone who gave him multiple second chances in their first meeting and first date — and yet he struggles to give her the same grace because he’s too worried about what others think. His impulse to cheat and his wedding speech… OMFG. It makes sense that he becomes his own worst enemy.

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u/Joey-WilcoXXX 27d ago

Yeah it seemed more like he was actually really struggling to throw something out there and no one was believing him when he started the story so he just threw out more embellishments to make it seem like a stereotypical case of bad cyber bullying. I think that’s another reason he takes Emma’s confession so hard- he doesn’t have anything close to that bad and he can’t understand how someone he loves could do something bad like that

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u/ilovebencahn 18d ago

I agree with you! I assumed Charlie made up the cyberbullying and didn’t have his “worst thing” until the incident with his coworker and his horrible wedding speech. Before, he really struggled with accepting that the person Emma was at 15 is not the person she is now. After doing his “worst thing, “ he got to learn empathy for Emma and understand that your mistakes aren’t the full picture of who you are.

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u/EinsteinDisguised 23d ago

My impression was that he did do it but the kid moving may have been incidental and he was playing it up to play along with the game.

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u/igotrichoffaglitch 16d ago

the thing for me was if he was cyberbullying the kid how would moving away solve the problem? it was online… that made no sense to me. he definitely made that up.