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Lola Versus (2012) 4.9
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4.9/10 from 3,171 users
Metascore: 49/100
Reviews: 17 user | 92 critic | 27 from Metacritic.com Dumped by her boyfriend just three weeks before their wedding, Lola enlists her close friends for a series of adventures she hopes will help her come to terms with approaching 30 as a single woman. Director:Daryl Wein |
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| Greta Gerwig | ... | ||
| Joel Kinnaman | ... | ||
| Zoe Lister Jones | ... | ||
| Hamish Linklater | ... | ||
| Bill Pullman | ... | ||
| Debra Winger | ... | ||
| Maria Dizzia | ... | ||
| Jonathan Sale | ... | ||
| Ebon Moss-Bachrach | ... | ||
| Adriane Lenox | ... | ||
| Ray Iannicelli | ... | ||
| Kathryn Kates | ... | ||
| Jay Pharoah | ... | ||
| Cheyenne Jackson | ... | ||
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Lola (Greta Gerwig) is 29 years-old and is happily engaged to her perfect man, Luke (Joel Kinnaman). But just three weeks before her big day, Luke calls it off, and Lola is forced to re-group as she cancels the wedding. While struggling to find happiness through sexual flings with her best friend, first dates with strangers, and attempts at re-connecting with her ex-fiancé, Lola realizes she's going to have to find herself first before she can find love and happiness. Written by napierslogs
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Lola vs. Sex, Love, Lola, The World.Genres:
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Country:
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EnglishRelease Date:
8 June 2012 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Lola See more »Filming Locations:
New York City, New York, USABox Office
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$31,815 (USA) (8 June 2012)Gross:
$251,913 (USA) (6 July 2012)Company Credits
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Performed and Written by Dan Deacon
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Orlando Bloom was originally cast in the lead role but dropped out before filming began. See more »Soundtracks
"The Crystal Cat"Performed and Written by Dan Deacon
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A 4.6 rating average? Why? What was so bad about this movie? I read the other reviews to see whether there was something I missed... Nope. Some of the other reviewers don't even have the characters' names straight. And I concluded that most of them didn't get the movie at all. I sincerely hope they didn't get it because they've never been through anything similar. So I decided to write a review of my own, and praise this highly underrated movie.
Lola is at a high-point in her life. She lives in New York City, she is working on her PhD thesis, and she is about to marry her dreamy-looking boyfriend of years. If it seems too good to be true it probably is. When the above-mentioned boyfriend gets cold feet and dumps her, everything comes crumbling down. She cries, comfort-eats, sleeps on the floor and goes to school looking like a zombie. She employs her two best friends, Alice and Henry, to help her get out of this funk. Things get complicated in the process though, mostly due to her feeling confused and ambivalent... Enter the classic coming-of-age, finding yourself stuff, the "choosing to be alive" as Lola phrases it. Sprinkled with some hilarious spot-on bits of dialogue, usually from Alice (Zoe Lister Jones), the friend who's there mainly for the comic-relief, and does excellent in it I might add.
I have to agree here with some of the negative critique. Yes, it is difficult to feel sorry for Lola when she lives in a beautiful New York apartment, walks around in cute little skirts and high heels looking gorgeous, continues to look gorgeous despite all the comfort-eating, and sleeps with three different guys in the course of an 87 min movie. True that. However, the emotional turmoil, obsessive thinking, failing to accept reality, and all those feelings that follow a heartbreak were there, mindfully portrayed. Greta Gerwig was an ideal choice for the part, since she evokes this next-door-girl quality that makes it easy for the audience to sympathize and identify with her. I also found her little flaws of the "wholesome" diet and the cleansing potion thermos super funny!
At parts of the movie I could guess what the next line was going to be, and not because it was predictable; because it was genuine and it felt real.