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Storyline
Aspiring music journalist Jenny (Gina Rodriguez) has just landed her dream job at an iconic magazine and is about to move to San Francisco. Rather than do long distance, her boyfriend of nine years (Lakeith Stanfield) decides to call it quits. To nurse her broken heart, Jenny gathers up her two best friends Erin (DeWanda Wise) and Blair (Brittany Snow) for one outrageous last adventure in New York City. From writer/director Jennifer Kaytin Robinson (creator of MTV's Sweet/Vicious) SOMEONE GREAT is a hilarious and heartfelt story of friendship, love, and what it means to let go of your twenties and enter adulthood.
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Taglines:
Life Is About Growing Up, Turning Up, and Moving On.
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Rated R for drug content, drinking, sexual material and language throughout
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Trivia
Taylor Swift wrote a song titled "Death by a Thousand Cuts" inspired by this film on her seventh studio album "Lover".
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Goofs
After Mikey tells them he doesn't have the tickets he'd promised, Jenny steals a bottle of booze as her and her friends leave his apartment. In the corridor, she pulls the cork out and spits it down on the floor, but when they're outside walking along the pavement, the cork is back in the bottle.
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Quotes
Matt Lasher:
Oh, one more thing: those wristbands are just G.A. I couldn't swing anymore V.I.P., but I put you guys on the list for the party.
Blair Helms:
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seething]
Are you fucking kidding me?
Matt Lasher:
Afraid not.
Blair Helms:
That was not G.A. intercourse.
Matt Lasher:
You're the woman of my dreams.
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References
30 Rock (2006)
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Soundtracks
The Perils
Written by
Old Man Saxon
Performed by
Old Man Saxon
By arrangement with ThiefofBaghdad
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I thoroughly enjoyed Someone Great from start to finish. This movie really captures the emotional turmoil of both break-ups and transitioning from 20's to 30's. The chemistry between the actors, both romantically linked and platonic, was excellent. I was emotionally invested in the cornerstone relationship and keenly felt the highs and lows in their romance revisited through flashbacks. I was actually very impressed with how seamless the flashbacks felt. It was true to life, as far as when you see or hear something that brings a memory to mind. I felt Jenny's crippling sadness at the end of an era: her 20's in NYC, her comfortable proximity to her oldest friends, and the recent end of her long-term relationship. Her present is so comfortable and the future so uncertain. Her friends drop everything to be with her. They felt fully realized as characters and not just plot devices to help Jenny's story along. Even small side characters were really fleshed out. I laughed, I cried, I experienced a large portion of the emotional spectrum. This movie is one of the best I've seen in the vein of romance, in a very long time. It was a love letter to anyone who has had to face major life changes and struggled to cope. I really enjoyed it and it will probably be a movie I revisit regularly.