What Happens Later is a 2023 American romantic comedy film directed by thw «queen of the rom-coms», Meg Ryan.
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- What Happens Later is a 2023 American romantic comedy.
- The movie was directed by Meg Ryan.
- It was written by Meg Ryan, Steven Dietz and Kirk Lynn.
- Meg Ryan and David Duchovny star in the movie.
- The film follows two exes who, after bumping into each other when their flights get delayed due to a snow storm, spend the night at the airport reliving their past.
- It was released by Bleecker Street on November 3, 2023.
- Meg Ryan’s return to film acting after an eight year hiatus.
- Meg Ryan’s second directorial effort, after Ithaca (2015).
- This movie was filmed in Northwest Arkansas, including Bentonville (home to Walmart’s Headquarters), and Northwest Arkansas National Airport.
- The movie is dedicated to Nora Ephron.
- This feature sounds like a remake of the French movie “Jet Lag”, directed by Danièle Thompson in 2002 and starring Juliette Binoche and Jean Reno, in a plot which has two strangers stuck at the airport after a missed connection.
- Meg Ryan first announced the film was in development in a May 2022 Instagram post.
- It was Meg Ryan’s first film as an actor since Ithaca.
- The film is based on Steven Dietz’s 2008 play Shooting Star.
- It is produced by Jonathan Duffy, Kelly Williams, Laura D. Smith, and Kristin Mann
- Principal photography began on October 26, 2022 in Bentonville, Arkansas.
- The film made $603,000 from 1,492 theaters in its first day.
- It went on to debut to $1.6 million, finishing in ninth.
- What Happens Later was originally scheduled to be released in theaters on October 13, 2023.
- It was moved to November 3 to avoid competition with the Taylor Swift concert film Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour.
- On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 49% of 68 critics’ reviews are positive, with an average rating of 5.2/10. The website’s consensus reads: “A pair of beloved stars and a refreshingly mature take on rom-com tropes are almost enough to overcome What Happens Later’s increasingly cloying execution.”
- Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 59 out of 100, based on 21 critics, indicating “mixed or average” reviews.
- Audiences polled by PostTrak gave it a 43% overall positive score, with 25% saying they would definitely recommend the film.
- The framework for What Happens Later is inspired by Shooting Star, however much of the movie’s details and personality will come from Meg Ryan and co.
- The running time was 104 minutes.
