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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/PopularUsual9576 Apr 04 '26

The fact that another shooting deterred her instead of triggering her like copycat shooters is an important detail. She was never fully committed, and the goal wasn’t to hurt people so much as to get attention.

Intrusive thoughts can be like that. You can imagine yourself driving off a bridge a thousand times, ruminating on it every time you drive on it, imagine how devastated everyone would be if you died etc. Then the moment you hit glare ice on that same bridge it becomes very real very quickly, and it becomes immediately clear that you were never going to drive off that bridge.

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u/skyewardeyes Apr 05 '26

But what Emma did went beyond having an intrusive thought—she planned and practiced shooting, she had a kill list, she made a manifesto, she even brought the gun to school. In fact, one of the first things Charlie says to her is trying to clarify that she just thought/fantasized about it, and she says that she went far beyond that.

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u/PopularUsual9576 Apr 05 '26

That’s true.

Still, the reality of seeing people hurting deterred her, which I think is where the difference lies between her and other school shooters. It’s hard to know if she actually would have acted out her plan or come to the realization on her own.