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(director/writer: Sophie Brooks; screenwriter: Molly Gordon; cinematographer: Conor Murphy; editor: Kayla Emier; music: Steven Price; cast: Molly Gordon (Iris), Logan Lerman (Isaac), Geraldine Viswanathan (Max), David Cross (Steve, neighbor), Sabrina Friedman-Seitz (Cynthia), John Reynolds (Kenny), Polly Draper (Mom), Jessie Nelson (Sandra James); Runtime: 95; MPAA Rating: R; producers: Sophie Brooks, Dan Clifton, Julie Waters, Molly Gordon; Sony Picture Classics; 2025)

“Overcome by its contrivances.”

Reviewed by Dennis Schwartz

Sophie Brooks (“The Boy Downstairs”) is director and co-writer of this dark rom/com whose clever concept is overcome by its contrivances. Brooks co-writes it with the film’s star Molly Gordon.

City dwellers Iris (Molly Gordon) and Isaac (Logan Lerman) after dating for a few months go on their first weekend getaway together to a beautiful farmhouse lakeside rental in High Falls, upstate NY. The young couple have a joyful kinky sexual romp with the bondage stuff they find in a closet. But a disturbed Iris keeps Isaac handcuffed to the bed in the hopes of changing his mind when he refuses to commit to a long-term relationship and threatens to have her arrested for keeping him there against his will.

Needing advice on what to do, she phones her best friend Max (Geraldine Viswanathan). She appears at the farmhouse with her crime story TV fan boyfriend Kenny (John Reynolds). They try to clear up what might be a kidnapping crime but only make things worse.

After a fast start the film by the mid-point declines: the funny lines disappear, the story drags, a witchcraft subplot is out-of-place, and it ends as a silly mess.
It played at the Tribeca Film Festival.

REVIEWED ON 2/10/2026  GRADE: B-
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