Two couples start to fall apart during a midwinter break, involving a lot of shouty dialogue that’s neither realistic nor funny
Couples Weekend review – Alexandra Daddario annd Josh Gad lead spicy comedy of marital melee
Two couples start to fall apart during a midwinter break, involving a lot of shouty dialogue that’s neither realistic nor funny The interesting premise in this laborious and dispiriting relationship dramedy sadly leads...
The interesting premise in this laborious and dispiriting relationship dramedy sadly leads nowhere; all we get is strained shouty dialogue and mugging performances in a film which succeeds neither in being funny or realistic.
Alexandra Daddario (from TV’s The White Lotus) is Debs, a book editor with dreams of being an author herself; her platonic best pal from college is Mitch (Josh Gad), a schlubby guy climbing the ladder in investment banking, and maybe nursing feelings for Debs he can never admit. They go to a cosy, picturesque woodland cabin for New Year’s with their respective partners; Debs is with hunky nature photographer Josh (Daveed Diggs) and Mitch is with Melanie (Ashley Park), uptight author of a bestselling cookbook called Emotional Eating (a good title, actually).
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