Plus One (2019)

Yes, this is yet another romantic comedy, this one centering not on the pressure of bringing "someone" to Christmas or Thanksgiving, but rather to weddings.  Yes, I know, no one should be throwing a big holiday party or a wedding with lots of people these days, but it is still nice to think about when that was possible, because it is very hard to picture it happening soon.  So while living a quarantined life (now on lock down), this was a pleasant diversion, streaming on Hulu.

This is a movie about more than having a date for a wedding.  It is looking the capture a time in your twenties and early thirties when it seems like every weekend there is another wedding to go to and, unless your own is on the calendar, it can seem like running a gauntlet of questions from friends and relatives about your own relationship status and doubts about whether there is some secret conveyer belt of adulthood that you haven’t figured out how to get to.  

Ben and Alice have been friends since college, and they decide they are going to go as friends to weddings and be each other's wing man.  The rest is fairly inevitable in the romance department, but Ben is also just not figuring out life either.  He has some trauma from his parents splitting up that interferes with his idea of marriage and finding a partner.  It is both bawdy and sweet as rom com's go and worth a winter weekend viewing.