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Review: ‘Oh, Hi!' is a movie that has no business working, but somehow it does
We've all seen movies that have a great premise and a solid story, but they fail in execution, because the filmmakers just can't bring it off. The reverse situation is almost never heard of — a movie with a bad premise and weak story that, somehow, kind of works. But 'Oh, Hi!' is that rare case, a movie that's engaging and interesting moment by moment, but everything else is wrong with it. Writer-director Sophie Brooks locks into a narrative that's unpleasant and far-fetched and that forces the characters to behave in ways that make no sense. And Brooks concludes the movie as if in search of the least dramatic ending she could devise. What holds it all together is Molly Gordon, who stars in the film and co-wrote the story with Brooks. She plays a young woman, Iris, who goes away for the weekend with her boyfriend, Isaac (Logan Lerman). They have been dating for four months, and this weekend represents a milestone – their first time away together and an opportunity to get closer. The first 20 minutes of 'Oh, Hi!' are the best, which is odd, because next to nothing happens. The movie begins with them driving down the road, stopping to buy strawberries. Then they get to the house that they're renting, have sex, go swimming, and have sex again. At this stage, the movie provides nothing but the pleasant spectacle of two people getting along. Yet if you pay close attention, you might detect some points of potential conflict. Very subtly, Brooks and her actors are able to hint that, while Iris is wholeheartedly keen on Isaac, Isaac may have some reservations about Iris. Though he can be effusive and demonstrative, he can also be, at times, guarded, as if reserving judgment or concealing his thoughts. This comes to a head when, at the worst possible time, he tells Iris that he is seeing other women and doesn't want to be in an exclusive relationship. Her reaction is extreme — don't read any other reviews if you don't want to know how extreme — and the rest of the movie is about the consequences of that response. The film hinges on Gordon's ability, not to be sympathetic, but engaging and fun to watch. Over the years, I've noticed that the best emerging stars are often people who already seem familiar the first time you see them. Gordon is like that — familiar, while also being likable, refreshingly self-mocking and comedically inventive. Easily, the character of Iris could have been played as a flat-out wackjob, and the film could have descended into horror-movie territory, but Gordon, without softening Iris' bizarre behavior, sets a light tone. In the end, 'Oh, Hi!' can almost seem like a meaningless exercise, because the points Brooks seems to be making — about the difficulties of establishing intimacy and the obstacles in the way of commitment — are fairly banal. That these difficulties are especially pronounced for millennials and Generation Z folks helps Brooks somewhat, but the movie glances off these issues in such a superficial way that it's hard to feel that anything important is being said. Yet sometimes things are best said without words. There's something about the way in which Gordon plays Iris — with her insecurity and neediness living alongside her wit, good humor, vivacity and intelligence — that speaks louder than the screenplay. Gordon makes you think, wow, if someone of such obvious appeal is coming unglued, maybe times are tough all over.
News18
09-07-2025
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- News18
Molly Gordon Loved Filming 'The Bear' Apology Scene With Jeremy Allen White WATCH
Molly Gordon opened up about filming the emotional apology scene between her character Claire and Jeremy Allen White's Carmy, calling it 'such a release.' The actress shared her thoughts while promoting her upcoming film 'Oh, Hi!' in Los Angeles on July 8. Watch the video for more on what she had to say. bollywood news | entertainment news live | latest bollywood news | bollywood | news18 | n18oc_moviesLiked the video? Please press the thumbs up icon and leave a comment. Subscribe to Showsha YouTube channel and never miss a video: Showsha on Instagram: Showsha on Facebook: Showsha on X: Showsha on Snapchat: entertainment and lifestyle news and updates on:
Elle
01-07-2025
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- Elle
Why Meghann Fahy and Penn Badgley Are Ruthlessly Trolling Each Other on Instagram
Every item on this page was chosen by an ELLE editor. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. Between Materialists and the forthcoming film Oh, Hi! starring Molly Gordon and Logan Lerman, the romantic comedy renaissance is here. And now there's a new one on the horizon: Penn Badgley and Meghann Fahy will reportedly star in Amazon MGM's You Deserve Each Other, adapted from Sarah Hogle's book of the same name. Here's everything we know about the movie. You Deserve Each Other is based on the 2020 novel by Sarah Hogle. The story follows Naomi Westfield and Nicholas Rose, an engaged couple who slowly begin to realize that they've both fallen out of love with each other. But rather than cancel their engagement and pay the nonrefundable wedding bill, they attempt to sabotage the whole ceremony in 'a battle of pranks and all-out emotional warfare.' Penn Badgley and Meghann Fahy will play the 'lovers-to-enemies-to-lovers.' The rest of the cast has yet to be announced. On Instagram yesterday, Badgley and Fahy exchanged some cheeky banter amid the casting news. Badgley posted a video walking the New York streets and praised Fahy's performance in her new Netflix series Sirens. 'Ok, so, I don't usually do this,' he said, 'but my wife and I just finished Sirens. Want to give her her flowers. Now obviously there's Julianne [Moore], there's Kevin [Bacon], there's Milly [Alcock], but this Meghann Fahy? This newcomer? This, like, refreshing, gawky beauty? Love it. Love you.' Fahy then commented on the post and said, 'Penn! This is so kind. Thank you. Tell Domino [Kirke, Badgley's wife] I say hi. And that her taste is flawless.' The rest of the exchange went like this: Badgley: 'our* taste. Dom says Hi!' Fahy: 'oops haha. Gawky tho 🧐' Badgley: 'I meant it as a compliment! Long arms are so gorgeous but historically less featured' Fahy: 'chill on the body stuff' Badgley: 'whoa I've obviously been very supportive and complimentary but this feels like a trap' Fahy: 'there you go again with that trapping thing. Heard you did a lot of that on your show. I never watched it.' Badgley: 'and somehow it succeeded without your support' Fahy: 'and without your range' Badgley: 'one Emmy loss and suddenly you're Meryl Streep' This story will be updated.
Yahoo
12-06-2025
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- Yahoo
‘A Tree Fell in the Woods' Review: Josh Gad and Alexandra Daddario in an Uneven, Occasionally Insightful Relationship Dramedy
If pop culture is to be believed, nothing good has ever come from a couple dashing off to a cute little cabin in the woods. This year alone, the sly sci-fi Companion, Netflix's drab dramedy The Four Seasons and the twisted Sundance rom-com Oh, Hi! have each taken turns considering the many, many different ways a weekend getaway might pressure-test a relationship, until fault lines become chasms big enough to swallow entire lives whole. Adding to that collection now is Nora Kirkpatrick's debut feature, A Tree Fell in the Woods, premiering at Tribeca. In the canon of vacation-set marriage exposés, it's mid-tier, entertaining in parts but neither profound nor original enough to blaze any new trails. But in its epiphany that our most complicated relationships are the ones we have with ourselves, it delivers an intriguing if incomplete snapshot of Millennial anxiety. More from The Hollywood Reporter Jim Sheridan's 'Re-creation' Puts One of Ireland's Most Troubling Murder Cases Back on Trial 'Inside' Review: Guy Pearce Is a Lit Fuse of Internal Contradictions in Haunting Australian Prison Drama 'The Best You Can' Review: Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick Star in a Congenial but Unremarkable Dramedy About an Unlikely Friendship The falling tree of the title turns out to be very literal: In the first act, best friends Debs (Alexandra Daddario) and Mitch (Josh Gad) are nearly flattened while exploring the forest around the home they've rented for their 'Christmas New Year's thingamajigy weekend.' Exhilarated by their near-death experience, they rush back to regale their spouses with the tale, only to spy through the window Josh (Daveed Diggs) and Melanie (Ashley Park) in flagrante delicto. Mitch, dreading a future in which 'each one of us ends up depressed, angry, alone, masturbating on the couch,' prefers to say nothing. Debs, reluctantly, plays along through gritted teeth. Nevertheless, it's only a matter of time before a violent snowstorm traps the quartet inside, with nothing to do but wallow in their insecurities and trade furious invectives — well, that, and drown their sorrows in the ancient, mysterious, possibly slightly magical bottles of moonshine recovered from the basement, to mildly comic effect. Kirkpatrick, whose credits include Prime Video's Daisy Jones & The Six, resists casting any of her four leads in roles as easy as victim or villain. As the couples separate to argue in private or individuals retreat to lick their wounds, the writer-director periodically cuts between them, so that their conversations or coping mechanisms become a single symphony of hurt and anger and misunderstanding. Sure, Melanie and Josh are in the wrong, and Mitch and Debs are right to be mad — but, the film makes clear, each has their part to play in everything that's gone wrong. Which is not to say that the movie's understanding of all four is equally sharp, or equally sympathetic. Its most lucid and least likable portrayal is of Mitch, who feels taken advantage of by the women in his life (namely Melanie, but also Debs); Gad's exhaustingly showy performance adds to the sense that he's one of those stereotypical 'nice guys' who turns every act of kindness into a self-sacrificing spectacle. On the flip side, Park delivers the film's most unexpectedly funny and oddly moving turn as a woman cracking under the dissatisfactions of a marriage built more around both parties' ideas of what they should want than what they actually do. The script is less successful at dissecting Debs and Josh's relationship, favoring her indignation over his fury to the point that when he finally does open up about his anxieties late in the film, it feels like we're only now meeting him for the first time. Nor do Daddario and Diggs share the kind of chemistry that might let us understand what drew them together in the first place, though they do share a couple of eloquently written, tenderly acted exchanges in the back half. But if A Tree Fell in the Woods is only fitfully persuasive in its excavations of the resentments that can build over a long-term relationship — and if the deployment of a vaguely magical potion to get there seems a tad too convenient — its shrewdest observation is that none of these grudges can be separated from the ones the characters hold against their own selves. No longer young but not quite middle-aged (the characters are in their 30s, though some of the actors are older), they find themselves suspended between fading promise and dull reality, between the futures they'd imagined and the ones they're settling into, between the people they hoped they might be and the ones they're actually becoming. Debs, an author struggling to live up to the promise of her debut novel, is married to a photographer whose reputation outpaces his talent. Mitch is a successful banker who hates his job and the life it's bought him, with a wife who does not understand him. For all four, the idea that they might really be stuck with these lives is such a bitter pill to swallow that perhaps it's no wonder they're compelled to do something — anything — to put off the decades of disappointment and disillusionment they see looming before them. At one point, Mitch even drunkenly floats the idea that the betrayal might turn out to be a blessing in disguise. 'We saw it,' he slurs, 'and it saved us from the rest of our lives.' Debs, understandably, isn't buying it. But sometimes, the only way out of a hellish weekend in the woods is through. And sometimes, the only way to cut to the truth is to knock down all the bullshit surrounding it first. 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Yahoo
11-06-2025
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Molly Gordon kidnaps Logan Lerman in ‘Oh, Hi!' trailer. Fans are still on her side.
The new movie Oh, Hi!, which just dropped a trailer that suggests that Misery really could have been a romantic comedy with the right approach. It's a classic tale: Girl meets boy. Boy invites girl on their first weekend away as a couple. Girl playfully ties boy to the bed … only for him to inform her, while he's still handcuffed, that he's actually not looking for a relationship right now. Naturally, girl never gets those handcuff keys, and boy remains tied to the bed. Yikes! Oh, Hi!, which debuted earlier this year at the Sundance Film Festival, is directed by Sophie Brooks and co-written by The Bear's Molly Gordon. It stars Gordon as Iris, a girl who completely misinterpreted her situationship's intentions on their weekend getaway. Logan Lerman, meanwhile, plays the commitment-phobic Isaac, who Iris believed was her boyfriend. But Iris isn't an idiot: He took her on this trip! He made her scallops! If all that evidence wasn't proof the two were on the road to love, she's not sure what is. And with Isaac still handcuffed after their whole 'what are we?!' conversation went horribly awry, she has a plan: She'll do whatever she can to make him want to take the next step in their relationship — as long as he doesn't find a way to call the police first. While the movie doesn't exactly frame Iris as of sound mind here, people who watched the movie trailer really seem to get her plight. Sure, many people in the comments section on YouTube pointed to Iris's deranged behavior, which some said would have been interpreted much more negatively had the gender roles been reversed. However, others totally understood where Iris is coming from: 'The way that this made me feel valid for my situationship telling me he wasn't ready for a relationship after being super romantic with me and feeling like I was going insane,' one person wrote in the YouTube comments. Meanwhile, on TikTok, there were lots of Iris sympathizers. One called her reaction a 'rational response, [to be honest]' while another said that they 'support women's rights and wrongs' before adding, 'but idk she may be right.' 'Totally get where she's coming from,' one commenter declared, while another admitted, 'I'd crash out too if Logan Lerman said that to me.' 'Sending this to everyone i've ever had a situationship with thanks,' one joked, while another said they were just 'one more situationship' away from becoming Iris. It's a perspective Gordon and Brooks understand. In an interview with Deadline earlier this year, Gordon spoke about how the idea for the film came about after she and Brooks both went through breakups. 'We kind of wanted to make something about the communication breakdown of our generation,' Gordon explained. 'I mean, it's always been ridiculously hard to date, but we do feel like it might be the hardest that it's ever been, and we just wanted to kind of poke fun at all the funny experiences that we've had and our friends have had.' In an interview with the Hollywood Reporter, Brooks said of the film: 'I think a lot of things in our culture about women pursuing love and wanting love become desperate or sad or embarrassing, and it's romantic for a man to be pursuing love and wanting a partner, and it's sad and desperate for a woman to want it. I really push against that. Part of being a human is wanting connection and I think it was exciting for us to kind of lean into some tropes that we thought were funny and absurd. Molly and I talk about how this movie is — If we were 10% crazy, what would we do?' Whether Iris is 10% crazy or a bit larger of a percentage is up for audiences to decide, of course — and how she gets out of the situation with Isaac, ideally alive, is anyone's guess. Oh, Hi! hits theaters on July 25.
