Anne Hathaway – STREAMING MOVIE NIGHT

2024 Amazon Prime Video

Rated: R

Length: 1 hr 55min

Comedy ~ Drama ~ Romance

Starring: Anne Hathaway and Nicholas Galitzine.

“I was just making sure it was you…….and not the idea of you.”

Here is the synopsis from Amazon MGM Studios Website:

Based on the acclaimed, contemporary love story of the same name, The Idea Of You centers on Solène (Anne Hathaway), a 40 year old single Mom who begins an unexpected romance with 24 year old Hayes Campbell (Nicholas Galitzine), the lead singer of August Moon, the hottest boy band on the planet. When Solène must step in to chaperone her daughter’s trip to the Coachella Music Festival after her ex bails at the last minute, she has a chance encounter with Hayes and there is an instant undeniable spark. As they begin a whirlwind romance, it isn’t long before Hayes’ superstar status poses unavoidable challenges to their relationship, and Solène soon discovers that life in the glare of his spotlight might be more than she bargained for.

Here are some things I didn’t know about the movie before I watched:

The Movie is based on the the First Novel written by Robinne Lee The Idea Of You. According to Michelle Ruiz in Vogue Magazine, the book has achieved an almost cult like following by readers who refer to themselves as HAYSOLNUTS.

Michelle writes:

“The Idea of You isn’t just a book, but a novelistic manifesto for middle-aged female readers. Though released in 2017, it became “the sleeper hit of the pandemic,” as I wrote for Vogue in 2020, powered by a passionate, dominantly female word-of-mouth campaign. People who love The Idea of You do so with borderline unhealthy obsessiveness. We lose sleep reading it on weeknights. We join Facebook groups about it. We re-read it and binge the audiobook narrated by Lee, a veteran actress who nails all the accents in her velvety voice. There’s even a name for us: Haysolnuts.”

Here’s what I thought about the movie:

I passed on watching this a couple of times in favor of something I thought would be better, thinking, “Oh, I’ll watch it eventually, I’m probably not really gonna like it being it looks like a Love Story.” But I am an Anne Hathaway fan, probably the biggest reason I chose to watch it. She did not disappoint. The movie did not disappoint. I got caught up in the story immediately. I felt the characters and the story right away. I became fully invested emotionally, feeling everything they were feeling. It made me want what they found, that indescribable thing, that instant connection.

If you’ve ever felt it, you know it’s rare and overwhelming. I loved every minute of this movie. I loved Anne Hathaway, I loved Solène, I loved Hayes Campbell and I loved how they met. I could feel the drama of the consequences of their relationship and the struggle to stay with what felt right to the heart. I loved Solène’s Subaru Outback, Her Craftsman Style “Starter Home” and August Moon, the whole story. I realize now that the book ends differently than the movie, even though I have yet to read the book, but I loved how it ended. I just loved this movie and everything about it. Yes I would watch it again.

I just can’t say enough about it, yes you should watch it…

In fact I highly recommend it, wholeheartedly…..

What are you waiting for?

The Idea Of You Book by Robinne Lee

2019 Focus Features

Rated: PG-13

Length: 2 hrs 7min

Drama ~ Thriller ~ True Story

Directed By: Todd Haynes

Starring: Mark Ruffalo, Anne Hathaway, and Tim Robbins.

“The system is rigged. They want us to believe that it’ll protect us, but that’s a lie. We protect us. We do. Nobody else. Not the companies, not the scientists, not the government. Us.”

Mark Ruffalo stars in the real life story of corporate defense attorney Rob Bilott who takes on Dupont after discovering it has a long hushed-up history of illegally polluting local populations and land with toxic chemical waste. Anne Hathaway plays his wife Sarah Barlage Bilott.

Reminded me of “Erin Brockovich” in that it is a similar true life story of big corporations getting caught polluting the environment and being held accountable.

Rob Bilott finds out from his grandmother’s farmer neighbor that there might be wrong-doing on the part of Dupont after his cows start dying. After starting to ask questions he quickly puts two and two together and realizes that Dupont has been shamelessly dumping toxic waste and trying to cover it up with little to no regard for human lives affected.

And so ensues a decades long fight to bring Dupont to accountability. Mark Ruffalo and Anne Hathaway did an excellent job of portraying the toll that tenaciousness took on their family and lives. The manner in which Dupont tries to ignore, cover-up and humiliate those affected is downright nauseating. Shameful. Arrogant Corporate greed without regard for human life all in the name of profit.

There were a lot of real life affected people and families who portrayed themselves in this movie. Most notably Bucky Bailey, born with facial defects as a result of DuPont’s poisoning and negligence has a cameo at a gas station with Mark Ruffalo about the 1:51 mark. Great job to all the actors and thank God for people like Rob Bilott who have stood up to the greedy corporations to hold them accountable. Where is the honor in doing business? Where is their honor as an American? As a fellow human being?

Excellent movie.

Two thumbs up!