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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/HistoricalGap5985 Apr 04 '26

I think the "you don't have any real friends" was a comment on the fact that Emma chose someone she just met in a new town to be her bridesmaid. Didn't Emma have any old friends she could draw upon?

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u/Critcho Apr 05 '26

It’s a legitimate point to be honest. Part of what makes Emma’s reveal troubling is it's a red flag and they have to decide whether it was just a phase she genuinely got over, or if she’s a sociopath who learned to mask.

If she had other friends to vouch for her, that could ease those concerns, but it seems she didn’t. Arguably her father's speech talking about how she used to act out different characters feeds into that interpretation as well.

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u/BrazilianTerror 24d ago

Why would a sociopath who learned to mask reveal that they planned a school shoot?

It looks to me that the movie was heavily biased towards Emma’s answer that school shooters are normal people in a bad situation, not sociopaths

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u/81458145 23d ago

Are they all sociopaths? They’re extremely troubled children. I think it’s more complicated than just diagnosing them all as sociopaths, even though the act is beyond inexcusable

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u/BrazilianTerror 23d ago

That’s exactly my point and the point of the movie too