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Starring: Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Sam Heughan, Celine Dion, Russell Tovey, Omid Djalili, Celia Imrie, Steve Oram
OUR RATING: ★★☆☆☆
Story:
Romantic comedy written and directed by James C. Strouse. Love Again (2023) follows Mira Ray (Priyanka Chopra Jonas), who in trying to deal with the loss of her fiancé, sends a series of romantic texts to his old cell phone number, not realizing the number was reassigned to journalist Rob Burns’s (Sam Heughan) new work phone. As Rob is captivated by the honesty in the beautifully confessional texts, when he’s assigned to write a profile of megastar Celine Dion, he enlists her help in figuring out how to meet Mira in person, and win her heart.
Best Quotes
Rob Burns: Céline Dion? Like, “My Heart Still Goes On”, that Céline Dion?
Richard Hughes: Too commercial for you, is it, huh? If you kept up with what the kids were saying, you’d know we were in the middle of a Célinaissance.
Richard Hughes: [to Rob] Ever since Elizabeth dropped you like a stone just days before your wedding, well, your work has lacked heart. Céline Dion is all about heart. Okay? People adore her. I adore her. So get onboard, or I’ll find someone who will.
Suzy Ray: Winky smiley. That’s like way more rrr, like meaningful than like a regular smiley.
Mira Ray: You know what’s crazy, Suzy? Our parents worked their a**es off to send us to college, and here we are, decoding the winky in a smiley.
Mohsen: [to Mira] Just because she’s gone doesn’t mean I can’t still tell her about my feelings. The ice, it thickens. Someday, it’ll support your weight. I promise.
'If the work is good, it's timeless.' - Céline Dion (Love Again) Click To Tweet
Rob Burns: I told you, I’m not looking to date right now.
Lisa Scott: Why not? You’re like peaking physically. You don’t want to be out there when you’re on the decline.
Rob Burns: Love isn’t real. It’s just a bunch of pheromones that wear off. Then you get your heart ripped out, covered in bleach, stomped on, set on fire in front of your friends, and your family.
Suzy Ray: Okay. This, I don’t know, feels a little unhealthy, maybe?
Mira Ray: I mean, what’s wrong with it? I’m just wearing my dead boyfriend’s shirt and the engagement ring he never got to give me.
Mira Ray: [text] I begin every day thinking of you, arm stretched over the empty space on the bed where you should be sleeping beside me.
'Time moves so slow when your heart's not into what you're doing.' - Mira Ray (Love Again) Click To Tweet
Gina Valentine: Is she using the leaf to blot her tears?
Mira Ray: Well, it would be weird to give her a tissue.
Gina Valentine: Look, Mira, we make children’s books here. Children. Remember them?
Little people who like to look at bright pictures and laugh.
Mira Ray: Well, maybe it’s better to prepare them. That life will inevitably crush their hopes and dreams.
Lisa Scott: [after Rob thinks it’s her sending the texts] Oh, my God. Gross. Rob, you could be like my dad.
Rob Burns: I’m like thirty-five. I’m thirty-five. Not much older than you are.
Rob Burns: Who is sending me these texts?
Lisa Scott: Someone’s smishing you. Phishing, but by text. First, they lure you in, then they ask for your credit card number.
Male Journalist: Céline, you’re arguably more popular today than when you started. How do you think you’ve managed to stay relevant for so long?
Céline Dion: What a question. Do you ever stop and ask yourself why people continue to read your work as a middle-aged male journalist? Maybe it’s because if the work is good, it’s timeless.
Rob Burns: Well, do you really believe in all these things you sing?
Céline Dion: You obviously know nothing about it.
Rob Burns: What?
Céline Dion: Love.
'Love doesn't always follow the rules.' - Céline Dion (Love Again) Click To Tweet
Mira Ray: [referring to the dating app] Why is every guy shirtless?
Billy Brooks: Know what? I don’t think it sounds like a scammer at all.
Rob Burns: Really?
Billy Brooks: I think it sounds more like a psychotic stalker. Or just a really confused old lady.
Billy Brooks: [after he sees the text Mira sent about going to a bar] You’re going now? Why?
Rob Burns: You’re always telling me to get back out there.
Billy Brooks: Yeah. No, this is true. But these are texts from a literal stranger.
Rob Burns: Yeah, but they speak to me.
Billy Brooks: They speak to you? No. What are you doing, Rob? You sound like an insane person right now.
Suzy Ray: This guy tonight doesn’t have to be your soulmate. In fact, you don’t really have to like him. If the body’s good, you go in there, you get the D.
Mira Ray: There’s not going to be any getting of any D.
Suzy Ray: Trust me, you need the D.
Mira Ray: You make it sound like I have a vitamin deficiency.
Suzy Ray: Yeah, you kind of do. You have a vitamin D deficiency.
'There's no joy without the struggle, they go hand in hand. Just have faith. Keep looking forward.' - Rob Burns (Love Again) Click To Tweet
Billy Brooks: Rob, check out that guy over there. Don’t look, but look. Yeah?
Rob Burns: What do you mean?
Billy Brooks: Maybe he is your texter?
Rob Burns: I thought you said they were from some psycho granny.
Billy Brooks: Or a sensitive silver fox? He has super kind eyes.
Rob Burns: Would you like to go talk to him?
Billy Brooks: Why would you insult me like that, Rob? I’m here for you, buddy. Nobody else.
Joel: Everyone thinks personal training is all about the body. But you can’t do four hundred weighted squats without a brain.
Mira Ray: Well, I mean, you really can’t do anything without a brain.
Bartender: Two Ketel One martinis. Compliments of the gentleman over there.
Billy Brooks: Oh.
Rob Burns: Would you just go talk to him already?
Billy Brooks: Rob, stop! I will be two minutes.
Mira Ray: Would you rather live your entire life with silent but uncontrollable gas, or loud, uncontrollable sneezes?
Joel: Neither.
Mira Ray: Just pick one. Or you get both.
Billy Brooks: [to Rob] Let’s just check into the numbers and make sure this guy is not your texter. And it is not. Praise be, because we are totally going to smash later.
'Love is a mystery. And in a restless world like this one, it can be ended before it's even begun.' - Rob Burns (Love Again) Click To Tweet
Mira Ray: [text] I think my date might have just gone to the bathroom to do pushups.
Billy Brooks: You know what, Rob? This night is not a total loss, you know? Because I’m going to get laid.
Mira Ray: Are you looking for another date right now?
Joel: Yeah. Yeah. Because you don’t want to have sex, and I have to burn off these calories. Those drinks had a lot of carbs.
Mira Ray: You know what? Get out. Get out. Now, now, now. Take a f***ing run. It’ll burn off those carbs!
Céline Dion: [to Rob] Strange. You have very manly hands. And yet, you act like a little boy.
'Actions speak louder than words.' - Mira Ray (Love Again) Click To Tweet
Rob Burns: “If I hear you breathe, I get wings to fly.”
Céline Dion: Has anyone ever made you feel like that? Have you ever made someone else feel like that? You have, haven’t you? I see it.
Rob Burns: I thought so. A while back. But it didn’t work out.
Céline Dion: And you’ve been stuck ever since?
Rob Burns: How did you know that?
Céline Dion: Because you have the presence of a pair of used underwear.
Rob Burns: I think I might have feelings for someone I’ve never met.
Céline Dion: You are more interesting than you look.
Rob Burns: I feel like I got to know her through these texts. You know, maybe I’m just fooling myself.
Céline Dion: These texts you’re receiving are saying something. Things like this don’t just happen. You need to pursue this.
'Open yourself up to the universe and it'll come rushing in.' - Rob Burns (Love Again) Click To Tweet
Rob Burns: You don’t think it’s crazy to fall for someone like this?
Céline Dion: Oh, it might be crazy. But love doesn’t always follow the rules.
Céline Dion: Love has a plan for each and every one of us. I think these texts are part of the plan for you.
Céline Dion: Love takes courage! Open yourself to the universe, and it’ll come rushing in, Rob Burns.
'That's what you do when you're in love. You work through things.' - Céline Dion (Love Again) Click To Tweet
Lisa Scott: Orpheus travels to Hades to get back his dead wife. And he’s given permission to return to Earth with her, under the condition that he not look at her face until they’re out of Hades.
Billy Brooks: Why?
Lisa Scott: I don’t know. Because the gods are d**ks.
Billy Brooks: [referring to the opera] How do you know if she’s even going?
Lisa Scott: And if she does, you still won’t know when.
Rob Burns: I’ll just keep going until she shows up.
Billy Brooks: You’ll just keep going? That is so crazy.
Rob Burns: Yeah. Yeah, but like she said, love makes fools of everyone.
Mira Ray: [as Rob sees at the opera] Do I know you?
Rob Burns: I’m not sure.
Mira Ray: I’m sorry.
Rob Burns: Well, I mean, everyone starts as strangers. I don’t know a lot of people.
'I need the full truth from you at all times. Even if it's messy. Even if it's painful. Especially if it's messy and painful. Because that's life.' - Mira Ray (Love Again) Click To Tweet
Rob Burns: [referring to the opera] Sure, there’s a lot of pain and suffering, but, ultimately, love wins in the end. There’s no joy without the struggle, they go hand in hand. Just have faith. Keep looking forward.
Mira Ray: I guess we’re not strangers anymore.
Rob Burns: I guess not.
Rob Burns: I work to live, you know, not live to work.
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