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

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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 Lavalléehttps://www.ericlavallee.com
Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist, and critic at IONCINEMA.com, established in 2000. A regular at Sundance, Cannes, and Venice, Eric holds a BFA in film studies from the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013, he served on the narrative competition jury at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson’s "This Teacher" (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). He is a Golden Globes Voter, member of the ICS (International Cinephile Society) and AQCC (Association québécoise des critiques de cinéma).

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