Anyone But You movie storyline. After an amazing first date, Bea and Ben’s fiery attraction turns ice cold – until they find themselves unexpectedly reunited at a destination wedding in Australia. So they do what any two mature adults would do: pretend to be a couple.
A modernization of Shakespeare’s ‘Much Ado About Nothing.’ When college arch-nemeses reunite years after graduation for a destination wedding, they pretend to be a couple for their own personal reasons. But through pretending, they actually fall in love.
Anyone But You is an American romantic comedy film directed by Will Gluck and starring Sydney Sweeney, Glen Powell, Alexandra Shipp, Michelle Hurd, Bryan Brown, Darren Barnet, Hadley Robinson, Dermot Mulroney, Rachel Griffiths, GaTa and Joe Davidson. The screenplay was written by Will Gluck ahr Ilana Wolpert. The film was released in the United States on December 22, 2023, by Sony Pictures Releasing.
About the Story
While trying to secure a bathroom key at a coffee shop, Bea, a law student at Boston University, meets Ben, who works in finance at Goldman Sachs. The two have an instant connection, and spend the day together, ultimately falling asleep together on Ben’s couch.
In the morning, Bea leaves without waking him. She reconsiders and returns to the apartment, only to overhear Ben insulting her while talking to his friend Pete. The two do not see each other again for six months, only to cross paths when Bea’s sister Halle begins dating Pete’s sister Claudia. The two are frosty towards each other, each blaming the other for their date ending poorly.
Halle and Claudia later become engaged, and plan a wedding in Sydney. Bea, who has broken up with her fiance and secretly dropped out of law school, is dismayed to find that Ben is not only on the same flight to Australia as her, but that the two will both be staying at Claudia and Pete’s parents’ house in the days leading up to the wedding.
Bea and Ben’s acrimony begins to frustrate the other members of the wedding party, compounded by the appearance of Ben’s ex-girlfriend Margaret and Bea’s ex-fiance Jonathan. While Bea’s parents attempt to push her to reconcile with Jonathan, the other attendees devise a plan to get Bea and Ben together to ensure the wedding goes off smoothly.
Bea quickly sees through the scheme, and makes a deal with Ben to pretend that the two of them are together in order to make Margaret jealous and get Bea’s parents to stop pushing her to make up with Jonathan. Early efforts to sell the relationship are unsuccessful, until a party on a boat, where Bea and Ben dance together and reenact a scene from Titanic, which ends in Bea falling into Sydney Harbour.
Ben jumps in after Bea, and the two have a conversation while waiting for rescue on a buoy together. She tells him that she has withdrawn from law school, and they make a date to sightsee at the Sydney Opera House together. After returning to the house, the two have sex, but Ben slips away afterwards, infuriating Bea.
The morning of the wedding, Margaret asks Bea for her blessing to rekindle things with Ben. She assents, claiming that the two of them are only situationally involved. He indirectly reveals to Bea’s parents that she is quitting law school, leaving her heartbroken.
After overhearing Halle and Claudia arguing, Ben convinces Bea to pretend to reconcile for the sake of the wedding. The ceremony goes smoothly but, during the reception, she sees Margaret kissing him and leaves in tears, heading to the Opera House. Ben, however, rejects Margaret, saying that he no longer has feelings for her. The wedding party convinces him to chase after Bea, and he once again jumps into the harbour, convincing the rescue helicopter that retrieves him to fly him to the Opera House.
Anyone But You(2023)
Directed by: Will Gluck
Starring: Sydney Sweeney, Glen Powell, Alexandra Shipp, Michelle Hurd, Bryan Brown, Darren Barnet, Hadley Robinson, Dermot Mulroney, Rachel Griffiths, GaTa, Joe Davidson
Screenplay by: Will Gluck, Ilana Wolpert
Cinematography by: Danny Ruhlmann
Film Editing by: Tia Nolan
Costume Design by: Amelia Gebler
Art Direction by: Sooyeon Lim, Sandra Nieuwenhuijsen
Makeup Department: Jennifer Lamphee
MPAA Rating: R for language throughout, sexual content and brief graphic nudity.
Distributed by: Sony Pictures Releasing
Release Date: December 22, 2023
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