Starring: Sydney Sweeney, Glen Powell, Alexandra Shipp, GaTa, Hadley Robinson, Michelle Hurd, Dermot Mulroney, Darren Barnet, Rachel Griffiths
OUR RATING: ★★★☆☆
Story:
Romantic comedy directed and co-written by Will Gluck. Anyone But You (2023) centers on Bea and Ben (Sydney Sweeney and Glen Powell), who look like the perfect couple, but after an amazing first date, something happens that turns their fiery hot attraction ice cold, until they find themselves unexpectedly thrust together at a destination wedding in Australia. So they do what any two mature adults would do, pretend to be a couple.
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Best Quotes
Ben: You know a lot about bathroom law.
Bea: It was a short chapter.
Bea: It is not weak to ask where the bathroom is. Every human does it. It’s very, very normal.
Bea: So are you going to ask me out now?
Ben: Yeah. Yeah, I am. I’m Ben.
Bea: I’m Bea.
Bea: [referring to the hypothetical giant spider attack question] You would let me die?
Ben: I’m not going to let you die. I’m just going to survive.
Bea: My life is a disaster right now.
Ben: Might be turning a corner. You just met me.
Bea: Or I might end up in a suitcase. I mean, look at this place. Looks like every serial killer reenactment documentary. Why do you have a giant wrench?
Ben: Okay, it wouldn’t be a suitcase. It’d be a carry-on, because you’re zero feet tall.
'No matter how broken something is, there's always a way to fix it.' - Ben (Anyone But You) Share on X
Pete: [referring to Bea] You in love, man. About f***ing time, man. My boy’s in love.
Ben: F*** that. I couldn’t get her out of here fast enough. This girl’s a disaster. She’s a nothing.
Ben: Door’s that way, if you’re looking to sneak out. I know that’s your thing.
Bea: Well, I am a disaster.
Ben: So, you a lawyer yet?
Bea: Why? Do you need a defense attorney?
Ben: No, just curious how you passed the class on ethics and not bailing on people.
Claudia: So Bea’s the coffee girl who ghosted him?
Pete: I thought she looked familiar. But I don’t see faces. I just see souls.
Bea: I’m engaged now.
Ben: Good for you. Where are you registered? I’ll buy you a broomstick.
Bea: You still live at 28 F***boy Lane?
Ben: You do remember. See? It did mean something to you.
Bea: You’ll always be my rock bottom. The night I spent with a b**ch.
Halle: You think they’re going to physically fight?
Claudia: Or f***. It’s a fine line.
Ben: [referring to being on the same plane] Serendipity, I guess.
Bea: I don’t think that word means what you think it means.
Ben: Do you want anything from the front of the boat? Hot cookie? Eye mask? Pajamas? Last ten years of your life?
Bea: No, thank you. I’m all good on creatine and small-d**k insecurity.
Ben: Nothing small about me.
Bea: We’re fine if he just stays away from me.
Ben: Don’t need an invitation for that.
Bea: I think you do. I feel like you can’t leave me alone.
Ben: Same reason I slow down at a car crash.
Claudia: [to Ben and Bea] Okay, so you guys buried the hatchet, water under the bridge, two adults adulting like f***ing adults.
Bea: I’m free now. I’m deprogrammed. But that does not mean I don’t support you and your misguided view that soulmates exist.
Halle: That’s sweet. That going to be your toast?
Halle: [referring to Ben and Margaret] They dated, no biggie. Broke up with him, crushed his heart.
Bea: No way. That man does not have a heart.
'Look at us. Just a couple of f***ed-up people floating in the middle of the harbor.' - Bea (Anyone But You) Share on X
Claudia: [to Halle, referring to Ben and Bea] Look, baby, I love you to the moon and back, but those two f***wads are going to destroy our weekend. And our memories, which we are going to have for a very long time, are headed straight over a cliff.
Roger: It seems to me their animus only surfaced after they spent a night together. Am I accurate?
Carol: That’s usually how it goes, honey. We crumple our feelings into a ball and shove them deep down so we can enjoy a bit of frisk.
Roger: We return them to the night they were smitten.
Claudia: Like we trick them into falling in love with each other?
Carol: We didn’t say anything about love, honey. We just need to get them to jump each other’s bones.
Pete: Some cupids kill with arrows and some with traps.
Roger: I’m from a different generation.
Pete: And your generation sucks. You f***ed up the whole world for us.
Roger: And I’m full of shame.
Ben: Well, maybe they want us to stop acting like a**holes so we don’t ruin the biggest event of their lives.
Bea: “Us”? There’s no “us” in a**holes.
Ben: I am not out of shape. I bench two-ninety-five. Three hundred once. I just don’t do cardio.
Bea: Oh, my God. You’re hot-girl fit.
Ben: I’m not hot-girl fit!
Ben: [referring to Margaret] Making her jealous is not going to work. We’re not in seventh grade.
Bea: Trust me, bro. We’re all in seventh grade when it comes to this stuff.
'Everyone is always going through something. It's called “life”.' - Innie (Anyone But You) Share on X
Ben: [to Bea] There’s no way we can convince anyone we actually like each other.
Bea: You know, I still think about that night we spent together.
Ben: Shut up.
Bea: No, I’m serious. You know, this could be kind of fun. We’re at a wedding, a million miles away from home. Who knows what could happen under the cover of a masquerade? And that night at your place, doesn’t matter how it ended. It was still pretty amazing.
Bea: [she leans close into Ben, then smacks his crotch] Convincing enough?
Ben: F*** it. Let’s do it.
Ben: You’ve only been with one guy your entire life.
Bea: Jonathan’s a better man than you’ll ever be.
Ben: And yet you left him. Which is why exactly? Because he seems like he checks all your boxes.
Bea: Okay. You don’t know my boxes, and you never will.
Ben: You keep calling me a f***boy like it’s an insult. I own that s**t.
Bea: Let’s just be affectionate. I know it’s a foreign concept for you.
Ben: I can be affectionate. I’ll affectionate the s**t out of you.
Bea: Ooh, are you ticklish?
Ben: No, I’m acting.
Bea: Like a toddler?
Ben: Permission to put my left hand on your right buttock.
Bea: Granted.
Bea: [as he’s stroking her butt] Too hard.
Ben: Sorry. We got to sell it.
Bea: Okay, not in circles. It’s not a magic lamp.
Bea: Okay, now you’re just playing “Bop It!”
Ben: I’ve never rubbed a butt for show.
Bea: Clearly.
Bea: Are you not wearing underwear?
Ben: It’s a swimsuit. I’m on holiday.
Bea: Ew.
Bea: Do you have a mole or something on your butt?
Ben: No.
Bea: Really? Because I feel something.
Ben: I don’t have a mole.
Ben: [as Bea pulls out her hand to reveal a giant spider] What the f***?!
Pete: We do not inherit the Earth. We just borrow it from our creatures.
Leo: When you know she’s the one, nothing else matters.
Ben: Getting to know each other in a very respectful manner, one befitting such a kind and intelligent woman as your daughter.
Bea: Yes. We are in the early stages.
Ben: Not too early.
Bea: But also not so advanced.
Ben: Just that magical moment when two people come together in this crazy journey we call life.
Margaret: Why did me and you ever break up anyway?
Ben: I don’t really remember, but I think you said something like, I was an immature drongo smothered in Axe body spray.
Ben: Margaret needs to think we’re the right type of together. Not together-together, but like situationally together. Because if she thinks we’re together-together, she’s not going to break girl code. So we need to finesse our togetherness so that we’re together, but there’s an opening for our togetherness, and she can just slide right in so that we can be together.
Bea: Are you on coke?
Ben: No, it’s the coffee here. It’s like meth.
Ben: We have to kick it up a notch. Make it feel like we’re in the gaga stage.
Bea: What do you want to do? Take me in the hallway?
Bea: That is not gaga! Actually, that could be construed as gaga.
Bea: Nice touch.
Ben: Nice dress.
Innie: Jonathan is just the most perfect guy.
Leo: He’s like a son to us.
Roger: Well, that might be your problem, mate. Bea might not want to shag her brother.
Bea: Is Margaret watching?
Ben: It’s a little hard to tell with B**ch Hemsworth in my way.
Bea: “Titanic” me.
Ben: No. That is so lame.
Bea: Exactly. The only people who would do something this lame are the ones who know how lame it is, but are in the first stages of liking each other, so they’re totally comfortable in their mutual lameness. Trust me.
Ben: This is so cringe.
Bea: So is saying “cringe”, old man.
Beau: [as Ben and Bea fall into the water] It looks like they’re going full Titanic. Hey, love the commitment!
Ben: [referring to Jonathan] Why did you break up with him in the first place?
Bea: It’s complicated.
Ben: It’s never complicated. What, he cheated on you? Drug problem? Did you catch him measuring his d**k with the ruler app?
Bea: We never fought.
Ben: It was a memorable night. Till you snuck out, of course. Why did you?
Bea: Because you scared the s**t out of me. It was the first time in my life that I felt fire, and I had to blow it out.
Ben: I’m a little afraid of flying.
Bea: Don’t you fly all the time for your job?
Ben: I have a very specific routine. Eye mask, headphones, build my bubble.
Bea: Thanks for kind of saving me though.
Ben: It was fun.
Bea: Stupid but fun.
Ben: Well, that’s the best kind.
Ben: We’re getting pretty good at faking it.
Bea: I don’t even know what’s real anymore. Everything I do just feels like a mistake.
Ben: I know what you’ve all been doing. You set us up, and we went along with it. But it’s fake.
Pete: It was my stepdad, right? He can’t act for s**t.
Ben: You suck too, bro.
Bea: There’s a reason why you’re alone. No one can trust you.
Ben: Yeah? What’s your reason?
Bea: Guys like you.
Ben: Keep telling yourself that.
Bea: [referring to Ben] I could never be with someone like him.
Bea: I’m a terrible sister, and he’s a terrible friend. It’s your guys’s big day. We’re not going to mess it up. We promise.
Claudia: Uh-huh. But just so you both know, if you f*** up today, the something I borrowed is a knife. And it’s shiny and new.
Roger: Love is intoxicating. It envelops you, it tickles you, and it makes you feel like you can walk on air. It’s like this wind. It’s in your bones. It’s in your breath. It’s in every beat of your heart. You can’t look for it. You can’t describe it. And you can’t escape it.
Ben: What is with you people? This entire weekend, I have been lied to, and manipulated, and puppeteered. I don’t know what is real and what is not.
Roger: Mate, I know you’re a little blurry, but I meant what I said up there about love. It’s too precious a resource to be wasted.
Carol: [to Ben] You gorgeous idiot. Run. Don’t wait on love. Fight for it.
Roger: And don’t worry about the age difference.
Ben: I’m twenty-nine.
Carol: Honey, no one’s twenty-nine.
Ben: [to Bea] It’s been two years since we met, and I haven’t spent every single day with you. That’s the sign of a crazy person.
Bea: [referring to after they slept together] Why did you leave?
Ben: I thought you were going to regret it, and I couldn’t face the idea of losing someone else that I really loved.
Bea: Last night was the first thing I haven’t regretted in a long time.
Ben: I love the way we fight. I love how smart you are. I love the weird way you stick your hands down my pants. And I love how you know what you don’t want. And if it’s not me, if I don’t check all your boxes, if I’m not the one, I get it. But that would really, really f***ing suck.
Bea: So you going to kiss me now?
Ben: Yeah, I am.