‘The Other Zoey’ movie review: Josephine Langford lights up this knowing, modern love story – The Hindu

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The Different Zoey is the sort of pasta-vanilla rom-com that’s as candy and comforting as fried, sugar-dusted bread. From the time Zoey (Josephine Langford) pitches her app to match appropriate folks as a substitute of on the lookout for romantic love, at a historical past class throughout a presentation on Valentine’s Day, we all know she is headed for a jolly comeuppance.

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Zoey is a high-achieving laptop geek who has her future all mapped out, set to soar to the stratosphere on the again of levels at MIT. She believes that romantic love is a business assemble and relationships constructed on compatibility have a greater probability of surviving. Her flatmate, Elle (Mallori Johnson) is the precise reverse of Zoey, having fun with watching rom-coms, weeping in sympathy as Julia Roberts tells Hugh Grant, she is “only a lady…”, writing poems and finding out inventive writing.

When Zoey hears Miles (Archie Renaux), who’s a scholar at MIT, quote thinker Alain de Botton about romantic love being a modern-day invention and that individuals wouldn’t fall in love if that they had not heard of it, she feels she has discovered her excellent match. Issues come up when she causes soccer star Zach (Drew Starkey) to have a concussion and amnesia.

Zach errors Zoey for his girlfriend, who can be referred to as Zoey (Maggie Thurmon), and the physician, within the true custom of Hindi movie docs from the ‘70s says, Zach needs to be saved calm, with none stress or his mind will likely be perpetually damaged. Simply as Zoey is on the point of inform Zach’s charming mother and father Connie (Andie MacDowell) and Matt (Patrick Fabian), the reality, Miles walks into the beautiful home and Zoey decides to carry her peace.  

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The household, with Miles and Zach’s precocious little sister, Avery (Olive Abercrombie) are heading out for a ski weekend and invite Zoey alongside. With strong recommendation from Elle (“much less books, extra bathing fits”) Zoey joins the occasion. The reality will out and there’s a falling out amongst greatest associates, however all comes proper within the requisite grand gesture with a stay stream changing the growth field.

The leads are nice, their romance and sparring cheery, and it’s so good to see Heather Graham and Andie MacDowell be the very best sort of film mums. There are not any cupcakes or desserts of any variety for that matter, however there may be pizza that appears yummy, chess and far pop music; all coming collectively to move an agreeable 90 minutes. By the way, science fiction and romance should not mutually unique, no matter Elle may say.

The Different Zoey is at present streaming on Amazon Prime Video

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