FEATURE · DRAMEDY / ROMANTIC ANTI-COMEDY

FUCK YOU, GLEN POWELL

When Glen Powell comes to his Missouri hometown to shoot a movie and starts dating the woman he has loved since high school, a stalled factory worker and failed screenwriter launches one last pathetic campaign to win her — only to discover the movie he needs to rewrite is his own life.

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A man spends years believing the wrong guy got the life he deserved. Then the actual movie star comes to town and has the nerve not to be the villain.

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