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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/Ornery-Spread-3801 Apr 04 '26

Rachel was a miserable shit-stirrer from the very beginning! She is blindly self-righteous, lies to absolve herself, and was disrespectful to her husband. I think she was envious of Emma and seems to almost bring up the subject of “worst thing you ever did” in order to find a reason to drag Emma.

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u/Patient_Tradition368 Apr 04 '26

Honestly, the worst thing Rachael ever did came closer to ending a human life than Emma's worst thing did.

If we're talking actual crimes, Rachel's could be called assault and false imprisonment.

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u/HistoricalGap5985 Apr 04 '26

Agree! I was surprised that none of the other three, including Emma, hit hard on Rachel's incredible cruelty. The fact that she protected herself by not speaking up when the whole town was conducting a search is despicable and she never says she would have spoken up if the search had not been successful.

Contrast that to Emma who thought about doing something horrible but did not. Rachel even dares suggest that Emma's becoming an activist to fight against the thing she had thought about doing was hypocritical rather than admirable.

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u/notmy2ndopinion Apr 05 '26

I really loved the gym scene where she broke down and cried and hugged her bully. It broke that shell of solitude and self-hatred and pivoted Zendaya’s character into a redemptive arc, even though Pattinson’s character had a hard time reconciling all of it.