First there was Marley, and now there’s Merv.
The trailer for Prime Video’s Christmas movie Merv starring Zooey Deschanel and Charlie Cox has arrived.
In it, Deschanel’s Anna tells her dog Merv, whom she still shares with now ex-boyfriend Russ (Cox), that the couple broke up.
“You’re gonna be okay,” she tells the titular canine, played by Gus.
Russ, who is observed at work as “a miserable drip lately,” realizes that Merv isn’t his usual self as the dog’s owners now split custody of him.
“Don’t want to play fetch, don’t want cuddles,” Cox’s Russ says. “He needs to find his lust for life again.”
Even the vet tells the former couple that the breakup could be affecting Merv’s routine and causing his depression. Russ has the idea to take Merv on a boys’ trip to the beach in Florida.’
“He hates beaches,” Anna says. “No, you hate beaches,” Russ answers.
But Anna shows up to the vacation anyway, dressed like “a weird lady spy.”
“We both know he’s happiest when we’re all hanging out together,” Anna reasons. “It’s just a week. How hard can it be?”
The pair still put themselves out there with different people, who sense red flags in that they are on vacation together and that they share a dog.
At the end of the clip, Anna tells a friend that she thinks she still has feelings for Russ. They even take their pooch to a medium to see if they can communicate with him about his sadness. There is also a promising Dirty Dancing leap that ends with Anna in a pool.
Check it out above.
Merv arrives on Prime Video pm December 10.