Festival Predictions

2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Alex Lehman’s Meet Cute

Published on November 23, 2021

Incrementally knocking on Indiewood’s door with 2016’s Blue Jay (TIFF world premiere) and 2019’s Paddleton (Sundance Film Festival world premiere), Alex Lehman got behind the camera in New York City this past June with Kaley Cuoco and Pete Davidson for a rom com titled Meet Cute – an original screenplay by Noga Pnueli. The title quasi reminds of Palm Springs – when high concept meets cupid’s arrow.

Gist: The movie follows the story of Sheila (Cuoco) and Gary (Davidson). When Sheila (Cuoco) finds a time machine in a downtown Manhattan nail salon, she uses it to repeatedly travel back in time to relive the best date of her life and figure out where it all went wrong. The premise: What would you do if you could travel to your loved ones’ past, heal their traumas, fix their problems, and change them into the perfect partner?

Production Co./Producers: Convergent Media’s Dan Reardon and Santosh Govindaraju, Weed Road Pictures’ Akiva Goldsman, Gregory Lessans and Rachel Reznick.

Prediction: PREMIERES.

U.S. Distributor: Rights Available. ICM (domestic). The Exchange (international).

Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).