Jane Wants a Boyfriend movie storyline. Jane is a young woman with Asperger’s syndrome who is living with her parents in Queens, New York. Bianca is her extremely protective older sister who is now moving in with her fiancé, Rob, in Brooklyn. Jane’s parents are now moving to the suburbs of New Jersey and they want Jane to move in with Bianca.
Bianca and Rob are not sure once they are ready for that kind of responsibility though, and Jane decides she wants her first boyfriend. This causes some strife to the point where it chafes at Jane’s growing independence despite ambient noise creeping into her attention. Eventually, this leads to Bianca trying to dissuade one of her friends, Jack, from dating Jane as she views him as too unreliable for her sister.
Jane Wants a Boyfriend is a 2015 American romantic comedy drama film directed by William C. Sullivan and written by Jarret Kerr. Starring Louisa Krause, Eliza Dushku, Gabriel Ebert, and Amir Arison, the film follows Jane (Krause), a woman with Asperger’s syndrome who is searching for a boyfriend with the help of her older sister, Bianca (Dushku). Jane Wants a Boyfriend premiered at the Napa Valley Film Festival on November 11, 2015, and was theatrically released in the United States on March 25, 2016, to negative reviews from critics.
About the Story
Jane is a young woman diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome who is living with her parents in Queens, New York. She works as a costume designer at the theatre that Bianca (her extremely protective older sister) is acting in, playing Titania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Now moving into Brooklyn with her fiancé, Rob (a field journalist), Bianca learns on Jane’s birthday that their parents are now moving to New Jersey and they want Jane to move in with Bianca.
Bianca and Rob are not sure if they are ready for that kind of responsibility, but they throw a house-warming party and invite her. We see Jane struggle with the overstimulation of the train and train station on her way there. At the party, Jane meets Jack, an old friend of Bianca and Rob’s who works as a sous-chef at a high-end restaurant and can’t hold down a relationship. They hit it off, Jack unaware of Jane’s autism, but Bianca finds them and splits them up, telling Jack to stay away from her sister. Jane and Bianca fight, Jane’s growing desire for independence conflicting with Bianca’s overprotective tendencies and her view of Jack as too unreliable.
The next morning, Bianca tells her friend Cynthia that Jane confided in her that she wants a boyfriend, and Cynthia suggests someone she knows from the bank she works at who they “only give the easy stuff” as a first date. Bianca meets Jane in the costuming department at the theatre and tells her to head to her apartment to pick out something nice for herself so they can have lunch. Jane heads to the empty apartment, plays music, tries on dresses and acts out a scene from one of the old romance movies she loves to watch.
At the same time, Rob gets an urgent call from Jack at work to meet up with him, so he agrees to meet with him in an hour. Before Rob goes we learn that he has an important meeting scheduled with his boss. Back with Jane and Bianca at a restaurant, Jane gets frustrated that Bianca and Rob don’t want her to move in with them, but Bianca deflects by bringing up that Cynthia and Bianca found her a date.
Jane is elated, and Bianca says they “have a lot in common” and lets Jane keep the dress she chose from Bianca’s wardrobe for the date. At a bar, Jack asks Rob to help set him up with Jane, excited about the connection they made at the party despite Bianca’s warning. Rob is taken aback, says he can’t go behind Bianca’s back after she told Jack to stay away, especially with the news he just received from his boss: he’s been promoted to a foreign correspondent.
Jack congratulates him, but Rob wants to wait until after Bianca’s opening week of her play to tell her. Jack pushes Rob to give him Jane’s number, but Rob pushes back, finally telling him that Jane is autistic. Jack, shocked, asks why neither of them had ever told him, and Rob says he didn’t want to tell him about Bianca’s “retarded” sister. Jack’s disgusted by the language, but Rob warns Jack of Jane’s demeanor and idiosyncrasies, asking him if he still wants Jane’s phone number.
Jane Wants a Boyfriend (2015)
Directed by: William C. Sullivan
Starring: Louisa Krause, Eliza Dushku, Gabriel Ebert, Amir Arison, Anisha Nagarajan, Polly Draper, Gregg Edelman, Jon Bass, Nick Stevenson, Greg Keller, Franco Gonzalez, Lindsay Arber
Screenplay by: Jarret Kerr
Production Design by: Emmeline Wilks-Dupoise
Cinematography by: Brandon Roots
Film Editing by: Casey O’Donnell
Costume Design by: Julie Bennett
Music by: Nathan Matthew David
MPAA Rating: R for language.
Distributed by: Orion Pictures
Release Date: November 11, 2015 (Napa Valley Film Festival), March 25, 2016 (United States)
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