Manchester<\/a>, where indie singer-songwriter Owen (Spike Fearn) meets undergraduate Emily (Sadie Soverall) at the student union. They click, but when Emily taps her number into his phone, she misses out a digit. Is it a drunken error, or has she wrong-numbered him? Owen is convinced it\u2019s a mistake and sticks up posters around campus to find her. After a tipoff, he waits outside a lecture hall for psychology student Emily (Angourie Rice). She\u2019s American, and not his Emily, but she offers to help, suggesting Owen emails every Emily enrolled at the university \u2013 all 318 of them. Owen accidentally sends the email to all rather than BCCing, creating an email group of Emilies who are divided in their reactions. Is he some kind of creepy virgin \u201cincel\u201d? Or a diehard romantic? Owen becomes a meme: \u201cemail guy\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/p>\nSome of the funniest scenes are the reactions on social media after Owen appears on a college YouTube channel with a guitar playing a song he wrote for Emily. \u201cIt\u2019s like Ed Sheeran on Crimewatch,\u201d someone writes. Another coins the hashtag #ratboysummer. This is a very gentle, light-touch send-up of campus culture wars and social media pile-ons.<\/p>\n
In fact, psychology student Emily has an ulterior motive for helping Owen: she wants to use him as a case study for her thesis that being in love is temporary insanity. \u201cHe is just data,\u201d she says, protesting too much. But, like in Curtis\u2019s films, the supporting characters are the most fun. Prasanna Puwanarajah is very funny as Emily\u2019s professor, a celebrity psychologist with a rampant ego. Distractingly, Owen is the spitting image of the young Liam Gallagher and at certain angles, Rice\u2019s Emily is a dead ringer for Taylor Swift. In a couple of scenes of them together, the effect is plain weird.<\/p>\n
Finding Emily is out on 21 May in Australia, on 22 May in the UK and on 28 August in the US.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last week came the news that gen Z are big fans of going to the cinema. Now here\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":684502,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[49,48,75,337],"class_list":["post-684501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=684501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/684502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}