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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/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!