Alison Brie hopes to rekindle an old flame with Jay Ellis in the Somebody I Used To Know trailer
The new Prime Video rom-com was directed by Dave Franco and also stars Kiersey Clemons and Danny Pudi
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Real-life couple Alison Brie and Dave Franco have teamed up on a rom-com. However, their actual chemistry won’t be seen on screen; the duo co-wrote the upcoming Prime Video release Somebody I Used To Know, which stars Brie and is directed by Franco.
In the new trailer for the movie, which exercises remarkable restraint with its music choices, Brie plays Ally, a high-powered workaholic who’s forced to take things a little more slowly on a trip back to her sleepy hometown. Naturally, she reconnects with her ex-boyfriend Sean, played by Top Gun: Maverick’s Jay Ellis, and soon enough, they’re eating big pretzels at Oktoberfest and frolicking through the streets like the good old days. Except, of course, he’s now engaged to Cassidy (Kiersey Clemons, Zack Snyder’s Justice League), and hijinks ensue when Ally tags along on a pre-wedding getaway.
Somebody I Used To Know notably features Brie reuniting with her longtime Community co-star Danny Pudi. The cast also includes Haley Joel Osment, Julie Hagerty, and Amy Sedaris.
Brie previously co-wrote the films Horse Girl and Spin Me Round with Jeff Baena, starring in both projects. Franco directed Brie in the 2020 indie horror The Rental, and the two have been in front of the camera together in The Disaster Artist and The Little Hours. Clemons previously co-starred with Franco in Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising.
While Netflix initially led romantic comedies’ shift to streaming, Prime Video has been steadily building up its own catalog with releases such as The Big Sick, I Want You Back, Late Night, and the recent Something From Tiffany’s. The streamer also has the Jennifer Lopez-starring Shotgun Wedding coming up soon.
Somebody I Used To Know will be available on Prime Video on February 10.
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Wow, Alison Brie and a big pretzel. Sounds like the perfect date.
She really Britta’d that couple
I got a Community notification for… okay actually this is reasonable.
They playing that Somebody I Used to Know song? Because this stupid title has it in my head now. Fuck.
No , and its a wasted opportunity…hell I would have even taken The Police’s Can’t Stand Losing in its place.
Understandable but it uses Stay High by Brittany Howard which is a much better song
LOL if it’s not in the movie I am going to riot lol. And not I MUST go listen to it
I find Alison Brie endlessly charming, so yeah, I’ll watch this.
I don’t like Danny Pudi’s moustache. Or rather, that’s what he should look like in Mythic Quest.
He’s obviously Evil Abed in this timeline
Eek, I’m not feeling very persuaded by this trailer. I’m supposed to root for a someone purposefully trying to seduce someone who is engaged? I’m sure there are nuances and whatnot, but at the bottom of it I see myself being pretty frustrated and annoyed while watching this movie.
Maybe Kiersey Clemons will end up with Jacqueline Toboni, who she had a torrid romance with on Netflix’s Easy
That would be something! I’m assuming one of two endings. 1) Dude chooses fiancee, but Alison learns along the way to be happy with where she is and gives her blessing or whatever. 2) Fiancee comes to the miraculous realization that she doesn’t want to be with dude, and she’d be happier with someone else/alone and dude and Alison end up together.2 is unrealistic and not the way this stuff works in real life. 1 would be not perfect, but fine, but still means I have to sit there being annoyed and frustrated the whole movie before that happens. When it comes out I’m going to read the plot summary on wikipedia and see what happens.
I’m pulling for “the three of them live happily ever after.”
I’ll allow it. lol
I mean maybe I’m projecting but the trailer really does seem to be hinting strongly. Is America ready for the first poly romcom? I live in hope! Cringey middle-aged polyamorists should have representation in this genre too! (Note: I mean this unironically.)
Are you forgetting about Joan Allen, William H Macy, and Jeff Daniels’ ending in Pleasantville?Because up until right now, I had.
I… had never actually watched that movie. Should I? It seemed unlikely from the trailers that I should, but now I’m at least moderately intrigued.
I think it’s hinting too! But I feel like it’s a trick. It would be something though!
This looks like a Hallmark movie but with an even smaller indie movie budgetGood cast though
No interracial throuples in my Hallmark movies, sir
Hi, Candace!
Hopefully the pre-wedding party gathers around the table for brunch and belts out Burt Bacharach and Hal David’s “I Say a Little Prayer.”
Whatever happened to Gotye, anyway?
Gotye goed away.
Stopped doing solo work, apparently in a band called “The Basics” now, mostly active in Australia.
Is Annie’s Boobs in the movie too?Yes.
Is Allison Brie only going to star in movies named after songs now?
Alison Brie in Muskrat Love
Looks quite nice, honestly. Chuffed about the Alison-Danny reunion. Also, Alison out here looking amazing for 40. Give her a new tv show please.
This sound and looks like your generic Lifetime and Hallmark movies.
Wow this Hallmark movie really roped in some A-listers