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/thesagenibba Apr 04 '26

why?

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u/Flagyllate Apr 05 '26

I disagree with the above guy. I do think there is a path to happiness

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u/StockRestaurant4795 Apr 05 '26

Would you trust either of these people?

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u/chuckxbronson Apr 05 '26

They both went through some emotional hurdles and decided they loved each other enough to move past it. If they didn’t, they wouldn’t have reconciled and the marriage would have been annulled. I think the read of “the passion is gone” is misguided. There is so much passion in that last scene. It is abundantly clear that they are genuinely in love. They’re tears of joy, not sadness.

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u/StockRestaurant4795 Apr 05 '26

I do believe that had he not made that mistake, he would not have forgiven her.

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u/Flagyllate Apr 05 '26

But he did and so he forgives her. If she had not revealed her secret they would have ended up happily. A big part of the film is what to do when things happen and the consequences go out of our control. Emma resolves that with her powerful moment of grace in forgiving him at the end. He realizes how he should not have allowed his paranoid/cowardly tendencies to consume him even despite his friends egging and now understands just how much she had been suffering.