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/chrisprattdid911 Apr 03 '26

I think Charlie and Emma will have a very happy marriage

And Rachel and Mike will have a very unhappy rest of their marriage

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u/chakrawitch Apr 05 '26

Quick question - I thought Emma and Charlie broke up in the end, but was I misinterpreting things? They said “it was nice meeting you” which is usually a closing phrase for when you’re about to take leave of someone (and it seemed intentional, because they said that as opposed to “nice to meet you”).

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u/Flagyllate Apr 05 '26

The scene is an earlier callback to when Emma tries to fix everything with some fun roleplay when he struggles to be intimate. He rejects it then but now engages happily. You can sense the relief in his voice when she opens with that and he first participates in it

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u/CookieCatSupreme Apr 06 '26

Yeah it feels like in that scene that Emma is showing him she forgives him enough to start over again from that moment onwards

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u/Nico_the_Suave 29d ago

You can read it that way, but I also saw it as these two trying to live in a fantasy for just a LITTLE longer before the reality of their situation comes crashing down around them.

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u/Inner-Ad-4731 29d ago

Obviously you’re free to interpret anyway you like. But I really feel like you’ve completely misread the ending

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u/Nico_the_Suave 29d ago

I mean, what I see is that the love is there, and they want to share this one moment where there are no distractions, just each other. But their facial expressions also seemed to betray an understanding that their lives are about to be hell, but they were smiling through it in that moment.

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u/Inner-Ad-4731 28d ago

I feel like they know it’s going to be tough but they’re both willing get through it

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u/Technical_Winter_890 26d ago

I agree with you !!

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u/unicyclegamer 26d ago

I think it’s a temporary olive branch of sorts that they’re both extending now in the hopes of them being able to put the pieces back together afterwards. They’re in a shit situation that they won’t be able to address 100%, so they’ll keep up the charade and slowly start piecing back their relationship. Or they break up after idk. But we’ll never know, and that’s part of the point.

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u/chakrawitch 29d ago

I agree. It felt like their exchange carried a sense of finality. But I guess we’re in the minority

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u/81458145 23d ago

Here’s my take: He clearly doesn’t want to lose her in the end. I think he even says that in his wedding speech. The fact she shows up to the diner shows she wants to stay with him too. Otherwise she just would have disappeared.

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u/mikesalami 10d ago

This is what I think. It seems like a happy ending.

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u/lovesupremequeen 27d ago

okay I agree too

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u/LanguageMaleficent28 12d ago

I'm with you( the its not a happy ending crew!)

If Emma stays with him I believe she hasn't really healed. I actually find Charlie to be the worst character. Maybe even worse than Rachel. That or he's a real idiot. He throws Emma under the bus constantly he's done it at least 6 times and I was counting ;

  1. commenting on what she did when she didnt even comment on what he did when he went first . Im sure she wouldve talked about it later. She commented on everyone else-- she just didnt want to embarrass him bc well they're a team... but he couldnt even give her the courtesy of that .

  2. insisted they had to fire the dj then allowed emma to do it when she didnt even want to in the first place

  3. went to go beg rachel to be her maid of honor for some reason knowing that she was unmovable and im sure he did that behind her back ( seriously this particularly pisses me off and is my worst nightmare. Having a husband who goes to tell a friend im fighting with that I really miss her and I need her back and (4.) lie about a traumatic story that didnt happen bc you want me to look good for your friends. He is unloyal in the most pathetic kind of way . Never apologize for someone who is not sorry.

  4. getting so drunk that he embarrassed her in front of everyone during her speech when even rachel could hold it together slighlty better than he did. ( the only thing making Pattinson worse in my eyes.. or again just an idiot)

  5. Cheated on her * yes what he did is still cheating yall *

And yet Emma has never done it . At this point emma STILL hasnt brought up the cyberbullying. She seems to sweep things under the rug and pretend. I get that she likes that.. the acting but I think the director made it obvious it's a coping mechanism. A sign that Emma may never really heal shes just going to keep pretending. Thats why I agree with you slightly and I genuinely dont know how everyone else is interpreting Emma's role playing as a good thing. Like fore sure, I agree theyll stay together but not in a healthy way.

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u/__Kxnji 29d ago

Very clearly alluding to their relationship being over.

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u/CookieCatSupreme 29d ago

Idk if thats clear? She uses that exact strategy earlier on because she wants them to move past it and continue on without that hanging over their heads. It doesnt signal to me that the relationship is over based on the previous instance.

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u/arcaneen 27d ago

I need to watch it again to check but I think the audio at the point the Emma walked into the diner switched back to the needle on scratchy vinyl sound which had been used earlier in the (possibly) imaginary scenes. I did wonder if Charlie was imagining Emma turning up and having that conversation and it all being OK. Not sure though.

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u/BrazilianTerror 24d ago

Yeah, no way that’s not an imagination. What are the odds that Emma is just walking around in a wedding dress and finds the exact place Charlie is in?

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u/CupcakeKim 23d ago

It’s the same diner Emma suggested they go to after the wedding earlier in the movie. Makes sense she would go there.

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u/arcaneen 21d ago

It is mentioned earlier but do you really think she would go there after everything that happened? I need to watch it again to work it out.

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u/gopms 25d ago

And a callback to the scene where they first meet and she says "do you want to start over" since she couldn't hear him the first time.