I Want You Back
I Want You Back is a 2022 American romantic comedy film directed by Jason Orley from a screenplay by Isaac Aptaker and Elizabeth Berger. It stars Charlie Day and Jenny Slate as two recently dumped strangers who team up to sabotage the new relationships of their exes (Gina Rodriguez and Scott Eastwood). Manny Jacinto, Clark Backo, and Mason Gooding also star.
Plot
In Atlanta, thirty-somethings Peter and Emma are each dumped by their respective romantic partners: Peter's girlfriend Anne feels stifled by the complacency of their six-year relationship, and Emma's boyfriend Noah is discouraged by her lack of responsibility. Peter and Emma are both heartbroken, but after a chance meeting they become friends and try to help one another navigate their breakups. Emma confides in Peter that she considered Noah her "airplane safety mask person": the person she loved so much that she'd put on his emergency airplane oxygen mask before her own, which Peter dismisses as a silly thing to ever do. One desperate night, Emma and Peter devise a strategy to win back their exes by breaking up their new relationships: Emma will seduce Anne's new boyfriend Logan, and Peter plans to befriend Noah to convince him to breakup with his new girlfriend Ginny.
More details
author | Elizabeth Berger Isaac Aptaker |
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director | Jason Orley |
editor | Jonathan Schwartz |
genre | comedy |
keywords | break chance meeting dump embarrass emergency airplane oxygen mask emergency oxygen system extramarital affair flee little shop of horrors mdma meet middle school minor morning nightclub nursing home open oxygen mask personal trainer school counselor terminal illness threesome turbulence wed |
musicBy | Siddhartha Khosla |
producer | Elizabeth Berger Isaac Aptaker John Rickard Peter Safran |
productionCompany | The Safran Company The Walk-Up Company |
publisher | Amazon Studios |
recordedAt | Atlanta |
theme | romantic comedy |