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What Happens Later

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What Happens Later

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Willa and Bill are former lovers who are reunited and find themselves snowed in at an airport overnight. Romantic comedy, starring David Duchovny, and Meg Ryan, who also directed and co-wrote the screenplay

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A star rating of 2 out of 5.

Terry Staunton

Meg Ryan's second film as a director, after 2015's Ithaca, finds her returning to familiar territory for a romantic comedy in which she co-stars with David Duchovny. The pair play ex-lovers stranded in a snowbound regional airport. As night wears on, the former sweethearts pick over the bones of their shared past, flitting between light-hearted banter and bitter recriminations. The screenplay, co-written by Ryan, is based on a 2008 stage play, Shooting Star, and the adaptation does little to disguise its theatrical roots, arguably coming across as too wordy and pedestrian for the screen. There's no denying the sparky and spiky chemistry between the two leads, and it's tempting to view Ryan's character as an older, though not particularly wiser, version of the upbeat women she played in the 1980s and 90s. However, the film's ruminations on regrets and roads less travelled have a tendency to stifle the more humorous components of the narrative.

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Cast

rolenameWillaMeg RyanBillDavid Duchovny

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rolenameDirectorMeg Ryan

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Theatrical distributor

Universal

Released on

2023-12-15

Languages

English

Guidance

Swearing, drug abuse.

Formats

Colour

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