Starring: Anne Hathaway, Nicholas Galitzine, Ella Rubin, Reid Scott, Jordan Aaron Hall, Jaiden Anthony, Raymond Cham Jr, Viktor White
OUR RATING: ★★★★☆
Story: Amazon Prime Video romantic comedy directed by Michael Showalter and written by Jennifer Westfeldt, adapted from the novel of the same name by Robinne Lee. The Idea of You (2024) centers on 40 year-old Solène (Anne Hathaway) as she embarks on an unexpected romance with 24 year-old Hayes Campbell (Nicholas Galitzine), the lead singer of a popular boy band. As their relationship heats up, Hayes fame brings challenges that is more than Solène bargained for.
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Top Romantic The Idea of You Quotes
Solène: What if all I need is Izz, and my artists, and my gallery, and my friends?
Solène: [to Izzy] Have so much fun. And, you know, good stupid, not stupid stupid.
Solène: Are you a part of that ASMR community that gets off on listening to people pee? Because I don’t think you can just go around assuming…
Hayes: It’s actually my trailer.
Solène: What?
Hayes: Your daughter, she’s an August Moon fan?
Solène: She was.
Hayes: Ouch.
Solène: [referring to Izzy no longer being an August Moon fan] I do think she will be a future nostalgic fan. But at this moment, today, right now, you are so “seventh grade”.
Hayes: Damn. Truth hurts, doesn’t it?
Solène: Do you need someone to help dress you?
Hayes: On special occasions, yeah, sometimes.
Hayes: [at his concert] I met someone tonight. And I feel a little inspired. Not planning on doing this, but this one is called “Closer”.
Nancy: You’re not even a person until you hit thirty. I mean, just think about it, right? And then you spend the next ten years after that trying to figure out the type of person you want to be.
Tracy: That is profound.
Jeremy: That is drunk.
Hayes: [as he turns up at her art gallery] I don’t know if you remember me, but we met in Coachella.
Solène: Yes, I remember you.
Solène: [to Hayes] This is real art, and these are real artists. They take their work very seriously, as do I. They made it with a great deal of care, and you’re coming in here like, I don’t know, like you’re buying apples or something.
Hayes: [to Solène] And for the record, you have never seen me buy apples before. It’s f***ed up.
Solène: [to Hayes] Don’t you have a football stadium to get to or a photo shoot to attend?
Solène: I actually would love to show you some more art, but you just bought everything in the gallery.
Hayes: Oh. Well, that was incredibly rude of me.
Hayes: The middle of nowhere is my favorite place in the world.
Hayes: [referring to the art piece] What’s it called?
Solène: Unclose Me.
Hayes: What do you feel when you look at it?
Solène: Everything.
Solène: Tell me, how does one find oneself in a boy band?
Hayes: Very random. I auditioned.
Solène: And what about Hayes?
Hayes: Oh, I’m just English. Just works a charm really.
Solène: [to Hayes] I’m not sure what we’re doing here at a boiling hot warehouse in Glendale, asking about my major.
Hayes: [to Solène] I feel like I don’t meet people like you very often. And most people think they already know me. Hayes Campbell. It’s not me. I don’t know. You didn’t seem to care. And for what it’s worth, I think we met in a very interesting way.
Hayes: I think you’re smart. And, you know, you’re also just, you’re hot, or whatever.
Solène: “Hot”?
Hayes: Or whatever. So I guess what I’m doing here is just trying to get to know you better.
Hayes: It’s hard to trust people, isn’t it?
Hayes: This Daniel guy, ex-husband, what happened to him?
Solène: Really? Not even a softball question to warm us up a little bit like, “Hey, Solène, what’s your favorite color?”
Hayes: Hey, Solène, what’s your favorite color?
Solène: That’s actually a very personal question.
Hayes: We’re just talking. We’re two people with trust issues who need to open up a little. I mean, what’s the worst that can happen?
Solène: Oh, you want to know the worst thing that can happen when you open up to someone?
Solène: I’m too old for you.
Hayes: No, you’re not.
Solène: I can’t do this.
Hayes: Why’s that?
Solène: Because you’re you and I’m me, and we just don’t fit.
Hayes: We’ll see.
Hayes: I think that’s my greatest fear in life. That I’m a joke.
Solène: [after he’s asked her to go to Europ with him] What about what people will say?
Hayes: I don’t care what they say. And worse comes to worst, we’ll just say that you are my extremely attractive art consultant. Everyone has secrets.
Hayes: [to Solène] You embarrassed to be jet-setting around the world with a twenty-four year-old pop star? Because it’s fine.
Solène: [after he kisses her in public] That was reckless.
Hayes: We’re in Paris.
Solène: It’s still reckless.
Hayes: It’s still Paris.
Oliver: [to Hayes and Solène] Now that you’re with Solène, you’re like a middle-aged man. You know, before you showed up, he behaved like an actual pop star.
Solène: [to Hayes] It’s not you. It’s me. You are very, very beautiful, and I fell for your f***-boy move. Forty and clueless, I guess.
Solène: [to Hayes] I got swept up in the idea of you, and it’s been fun, it really has, but we both knew it had to end.
Hayes: [to Solène] For the first time in, I don’t even f***ing know how long, I’m actually happy. I mean, usually, I feel numb, or, you know, I feel like I’m supposed to be feeling something when I’m not. But with you, laughing, just being with you, holding you at night, I mean, it’s meant the world to me.
Hayes: The music I’m writing now, I actually feel like I care about it. So why on earth would I want this to end? This is where you say, “Of course, Hayes. I feel some of this too.”
Hayes: [to Solène] I don’t think you ever even gave us a chance.
Hayes: So, what, you’re you’re ashamed of me? Is that it?
Solène: I am ashamed.
Daniel: Okay. Well, I mean, I’m sure we can all agree that any relationship with a twenty-four year-old world-famous pop star would be crazy on like so many levels.
Solène: [referring to her relationship with Hayes] I didn’t tell anyone. I kept thinking, “I’m just going to have this experience, and no one will ever know.”
Izzy: [to Solène] People on the Internet that are picking you apart are disgusting. It’s because you’re a woman, and it’s because you’re older than him. They hate you for it. So that’s just hypocritical and unfair. And wrong.
Izzy: [to Solène] Why would you break up with a talented, kind feminist?
Solène: [to Hayes] When you said this is the part where I was supposed to say that I felt all those things too, I was afraid. I do, very much feel all those things. With you, I feel everything. So maybe you’re right. Maybe it doesn’t have to end.
Solène: I mean, I didn’t know my being happy would pi** so many people off.
Tracy: Oh, right. Did I not warn you? People hate happy women.
Solène: [to Hayes] I can’t do this anymore. Us, our relationship, I can’t do it anymore. It’s Izz. It’s just, it’s too much for her. I mean, it’s actually insane. I mean, she didn’t sign up for any of this, and it’s too much for her. And I have to put her first.
Hayes: I could quit all of it.
Solène: No, you can’t.
Hayes: I auditioned for the band when I was fourteen. It shouldn’t ruin a whole life.
Solène: It’s not going to. You’re going to have a big, beautiful life. I’m so sorry.
Hayes: I love you, Solène.
Solène: I love you too.
Hayes: Just promise me you’ll revisit this in five years. Izzy will be out of school, living her best life. And I’ll be some D-list celebrity that nobody gives a s**t about.
Solène: It’s too long. If you get a shot at happiness, you take it. And I will, too, okay?
Graham Norton: [as Solène watches Hayes being interviewed on TV] LA? Any particular reason why LA?
Hayes: There’s someone I would like to see there.
[a little time later, Hayes arrives at Solène’s art gallery, and as they see each other, they both smile]