Always Be My Maybe is a Netflix original romantic comedy that took the world by strom during the past weekend!
So let’s find out some trivia and facts about this movie!
- Always Be My Maybe is a 2019 American romantic comedy film
- It is directed by Nahnatchka Khan
- Starring Ali Wong and Randall Park as “two childhood friends who find themselves in vastly different socioeconomic situations when they fall in love as adults”
- The film was released in select theaters on May 29, 2019
- And on May 31, 2019, on Netflix
- In August 2017, it was announced that Netflix had greenlit an untitled film written by Ali Wong, Randall Park, and Michael Golamco
- With the earlier two set to costar in the film
- In March 2018, it was announced that the untitled film would be directed by Nahnatchka Khan
- In her directorial debut
- With principal photography set to commence in Vancouver and San Francisco in May 2018
- In May 2018, Keanu Reeves, Daniel Dae Kim, Michelle Buteau, Vivian Bang, Karan Soni, Charlyne Yi, James Saito, Lyrics Born, and Susan Park joined the cast of the film
- Which was titled Always Be My Maybe
- Principal photography began on May 30, 2018, in Vancouver
- Additional filming took place in San Francisco from July 15 to 26, 2018
- Always Be My Maybe was released on May 29, 2019, in select theaters and May 31, 2019, on Netflix
- The title of the film is a play-on-words of the title of the song “Always Be My Baby” by Mariah Carey
- The film received positive reviews from critics upon its release
- The review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes gave the film an approval rating of 91%
- Based on 32 reviews
- With a weighted average of 7.03/10
- The website’s critical consensus reads, “Carried by the infectious charms of Ali Wong and Randall Park, Always Be My Maybe takes familiar rom-com beats and cleverly layers in smart social commentary to find its own sweet groove”
- Metacritic gave the film a Metascore of 63 out of 100
- Based on 16 reviews
- Iindicating “generally favorable reviews”
