I am trying really hard to comprehend the hate I am seeing on here from some people. I confess: I fully expected this to be a cringy college student's independent film with bad acting and an even worse script. Instead, I was delivered a film clearly written from a place of experience and featuring a carefully selected and completely capable cast - I dare say not a single bad actor among them (some superior to others, but none could be called bad).

How this film could receive anything but love is beyond me. Maybe the naysayers were looking for an Emma Stone romcom with a bunch of goofy faces, pratfalls and a happy ending, but were disappointed to find complicated human characters and real emotions?

It has been a long time since I saw a film that engaged me so completely and made me believe every character and every motivation, no matter how small. It genuinely felt like I was re-living some chapter of my own life - seeing the people I knew and understood, feeling the intimacy and immediacy of each moment, but also stepping back to view it from new, less-biased angles.

This movie will likely appeal most to people who are (as of 2021) in their early 30's-mid 40's. I think, perhaps unintentionally, the film perfectly captured the feeling of being a young, newly independent adult in the early to mid 00's - that last bit of time before social media exploded and everyone became glued to their phones at all times (and therefore detached). In that time, people and emotions mattered so much more and, in a way, you were forced to really face these things. You couldn't simply block so-and-so on instagram and jump on Tindr to find the next one. You were left with a mind full of them and the experiences you've had with them and had to really decide if you wanted to completely remove them from your life or if you wanted to salvage what was good and reshape the relationship to fit that (whatever form that may be); as well as make the choice of whether you are going to continue living as you were or if you are going to search yourself for what it is that you really want in life and what it is that you are capable of.

THAT is what this movie is about.

Five years later I discovered this movie. I'm not a young person and after you've been around as long as I have you pretty much have seen a lot. I like the way the characters developed and the story wound itself out. I think stories like this depend upon one's life experiences. These were all friends of mine. Who knew?

This is the feel good movie you've been searching for. In all seriousness, I didn't know what to expect but went to see it with an open mind. It's written and constructed nicely. Believable characters in real life situations that I found easy to connect with and believe. The actors themselves brought it and I found myself cheering not just for the lead which was a little surprising but refreshing. Their journey isn't pretty but then life isn't, but you'll smile in the end!