1 of 5 | Spike Fearn and Angourie Rice star in "Finding Emily," in theaters Friday. Photo courtesy of Focus Features LLC
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 26 (UPI) -- Finding Emily, in theaters Friday, has something to say about the behavior romantic comedies sell as endearing. However, it makes its characters so broad that it turns very legitimate observations into a joke.
Owen (Spike Fearn) meets Emily (Sadie Soverall) at the Manchester City University Student Union where he is a sound engineer. She gives him her phone number, but the next morning he finds it is one digit short.
Searching for Emilys on campus, Owen meets psychology thesis student Emily Raine (Angourie Rice). Hearing his story, Emily offers to help Owen find his Emily, secretly studying him for her thesis.
Raine's theory, derived from Sigmund Freud and Toni Morrison, is that love is just a psychosis that causes people to act in self-destructive ways. Many a rom-com begin with characters who have sworn off love, so that's fine.
