Lola Versus (2012)
Storyline
Just three weeks before her wedding, Lola (Greta Gerwig) finds herself suddenly without a partner when her longtime fiance, Luke (Joel Kinnaman), dumps her. With her 30th birthday looming and being forced to re-enter the New York City dating scene, she feels adrift in a cold world. She leans on her friends (Zoe Lister-Jones, Hamish Linklater) for support but, after a series of romantic humiliations, professional blunders and boozy antics, Lola realizes that she alone is in charge of her fate.
Directors
Cast
Joel Kinnaman, Adriane Lenox, Bill Pullman, Maria Dizzia, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Zoe Lister-Jones, Hamish Linklater, Greta Gerwig, Debra Winger, Jonathan Sale, Ray Iannicelli, Kathryn Kates, Jay Pharoah, Cheyenne Jackson, Parisa Fitz-Henley, Bill Kocis, Kena Onyenjekwe, Jeanine Moss, Micah Parker, Victor Cruz
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Reviews
75
Gerwig transforms the ordinary screenplay into something that is by turns charming, touching, and funny.
70
Variety
It's one girl against the world in Lola Versus, a snappy yet sincere romantic comedy that begins where others end, with the proposal and wedding plans pointing toward happily ever after.
67
Gerwig singlehanded carries this blithe, generally forgettable story.
67
Gerwig is adorable, but that's both good and bad, as the movie can't stop cuing us to see that Lola's winsomeness will rescue her.
60
Convincing in its depiction of late-20s romantic anxiety (if not of that age bracket's real estate realities), it is broadly appealing without bowing too deeply to formula.
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