All of Us Strangers Trivia | 30 facts about the movie

All of Us Strangers is a 2023 British romantic fantasy film written and directed by Andrew Haigh, and based on the 1987 novel Strangers by Taichi Yamada.

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1. All of Us Strangers is a 2023 British romantic fantasy film.
2. It was written and directed by Andrew Haigh.
3. The movie was based on the 1987 novel Strangers by Taichi Yamada.
4. It is the second feature adaptation of the novel, after the Japanese film The Discarnates (1988).
5. The film stars Andrew Scott, Paul Mescal, Jamie Bell, and Claire Foy.
6. All of Us Strangers premiered at the 50th Telluride Film Festival on 31 August 2023.
7. It was released in the United States on 22 December 2023.
8. It is scheduled for release in the United Kingdom on 26 January 2024, by Searchlight Pictures.
9. It received critical acclaim.
10. It was named one of the top ten independent films of 2023 by the National Board of Review.
11. Andrew Haigh’s childhood home served as the filming location for the house Adam finds his parents in.
12. Writer/director Andrew Haigh called this his most personal film yet.
13. Originally titled Strangers, which is the same name as the original novel by Taichi Yamada.
14. Sixth feature film directed by Andrew Haigh.
15. On 30 June 2022, the film, then known as Strangers, and the principal cast were announced.
16. The announced plot was brief and vaguely worded, and attracted inquiries on social media as to whether the film involved a romance between Scott and Mescal’s characters.
17. Filming was in progress in the United Kingdom when the announcement was made.
18. Haigh’s childhood home served as the filming location for the house in which Adam finds his parents.
19. Nightclub sequences were shot on location at the Royal Vauxhall Tavern.
20. The movie  played at the 2023 New York Film Festival on 1 October 2023.
21. It also made it to the main competition of the 68th Valladolid International Film Festival.
22. Cork International Film Festival chose the film as its International Gala film, acting as the Irish premier, on November 19, 2023.
23. The screening was held at the Everyman Theatre to a packed house. The QCinema International Film Festival hosted three screenings of the film on November 19, 20, and 24, 2023.
24. It began a limited release in the United States on 22 December 2023 and is scheduled to be released in the United Kingdom on 26 January 2024.
25. In its limited opening weekend, the film made $232,909 from four theaters, a per-venue average of $58,000.
26. The film won seven awards at the 2023 British Independent Film Awards, including Best Director and Best Screenplay.
27. On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 93% of 134 critics’ reviews are positive, with an average rating of 8.6/10.
28. The website’s consensus reads: “All of Us Strangers examines profound grief and love through a fantastical lens that is always grounded on human emotion.”
29. Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 90 out of 100, based on 36 critics, indicating “universal acclaim”.
30. Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of “A−” on an A+ to F scale.