Am I OK? movie storyline. Lucy and Jane are best friends in their thirties, living five minutes away from each other in Los Angeles. At the start, Lucy is kind of going through the motions of her life and Jane thinks she can read her like a book. Their blissful routine of meals at cute diners and long text chains is disrupted when Jane is promoted and promptly told she has to move to London. This break in her comfort zone jolts Lucy to realize and vocalize that she’s actually a lesbian.
This fluid story of bonding and queer self-realization came naturally to screenwriter Lauren Pomerantz, who wrote AM I OK? based on her own experiences: “It started as a friendship story about myself and my best friend… and we would just kind of write down all the dumb stuff we do together, so it really was rooted in our friendship. And when I was struggling with my own coming out and that journey, I realized that was the story I wanted to tell also.”
It was this sense of honesty that drew Johnson to the film. “I prefer a world in which people continue to grow and change throughout their whole lives,” the actor says passionately. “I think we’ve been seeing in coming-of-age, and buddy comedy movies, this plot that says that people have to have everything figured out in their lives in their twenties! And people in their twenties are dumb!”
Mizuno agrees with her colleague, wholeheartedly: “It was easy to connect to the material because it was so true to being a woman in your thirties.” That confidence and ease of these characters is so familiar and so refreshing to see. AM I OK? isn’t a coming-of-age film, it’s a story about coming into one’s own.
Am I OK? is a 2022 American comedy-drama film directed by Tig Notaro and Stephanie Allynne and written by Lauren Pomerantz. It stars Dakota Johnson, Sonoya Mizuno, Jermaine Fowler, Kiersey Clemons, Molly Gordon, Tig Notaro, and Sean Hayes. It had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on January 24, 2022,[2] and premiered on Max on June 6, 2024.
About the Story
Lucy is a 32-year-old woman living in Los Angeles with her best friend Jane and working as a receptionist at a spa. She finds little satisfaction in her romantic life, including with her friend Ben, who becomes frustrated at her continued avoidance of his advances.
Jane receives a work promotion that will require her to relocate to London, and goes out for drinks with Lucy and Jane’s boyfriend Danny to celebrate. After Jane confesses to kissing a female friend as a teenager, Lucy drunkenly tells her that she thinks she might be a lesbian. Jane encourages her to explore her feelings, suggesting that Lucy should pursue her flirtatious massage therapist co-worker Brittany.
Lucy invites Brittany to her house for dinner, but receives mixed signals as Brittany shares about her ex-boyfriend, but also declares her sexuality to be ‘on the spectrum’ and kisses her before leaving. Jane brings Lucy to a lesbian bar, but Lucy is shy and soon leaves after seeing Jane kissing other women on the dance floor; the two fight and stop speaking.
Lucy meets up with Brittany again. The two have sex, but Brittany quickly leaves the following morning and becomes distant, later reconciling with her ex-boyfriend. Meanwhile, Jane deals with the pressures of her upcoming move, including her self-absorbed co-worker Kat and Danny’s confession that he does not want to join Jane in London as she assumed he would.
Am I OK? (2024)
Directed by: Tig Notaro, Stephanie Allynne
Starring: Dakota Johnson, Sonoya Mizuno, Jermaine Fowler, Kiersey Clemons, Whitmer Thomas, Molly Gordon, Tig Notaro, Sean Hayes, Odessa A’zion, Patrick McDonald, Emma Pasarow
Screenplay by: Lauren Pomerantz
Production Design by: Christopher Brown
Cinematography by: Cristina Dunlap
Film Editing by: Kayla M. Emter, Glen Scantlebury
Costume Design by: April Napier
Art Direction by: Mars Feehery
Music by: St. Vincent, Craig Wedren
MPAA Rating: R for language, sexual references and some drug use.
Distributed by: Warner Bros. Pictures, Max
Release Date: January 24, 2022 (Sundance), June 6, 2024 (United States)
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