Rom com The Idea of You closed out this year’s South by Southwest festival prior to its Amazon Prime streaming debut on May 2nd. Based on the novel by Robinne Lee, the adaptation casts Anne Hathaway (Supporting Actress winner for 2012’s Les Miserables) as a divorcee who finds herself in a relationship with a superstar boy band singer played by Nicholas Galiztine. Ella Rubin, Reid Scott, and Annie Mumolo costar. Michael Showalter, who made The Big Sick and directed Jessica Chastain to a Best Actress victory in The Eyes of Tammy Faye, is behind the camera.
The small sampling of early reviews indicate a crowdpleaser that shouldn’t get in the heads of the Academy. That said, the Golden Globes might be a different story. In the Musical/Comedy field, Hathaway could make a play for Actress attention. So could the picture depending on the level of competition that follows in the next nine and a half months (though Hathaway is a likelier possibility). My Oscar Prediction posts will continue…
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