Rosaline

Matt Roush says...

If you’re the sort of Romeo & Juliet fan who’s ever wanted to say of the young lovers’ faked-death scheme, “That is quite possibly the dumbest f—ing thing I’ve ever heard in my life,” this comedic twist on the romantic legend is for you. With contemporary and quite bawdy vernacular, Rosaline turns the story into an irreverent romcom farce, starring the mercurial Kaitlyn Dever (Dopesick) as feisty Rosaline, the first maiden to hear Romeo’s (Kyle Allen) flowery endearments on her balcony. (Her response: “Why are you talking like that?”) When Romeo meets and falls for Rosaline’s ingenue cousin Juliet (Isabela Merced), the spurned and jealous Rosaline sets out to doom their romance. Can the classic tragedy be averted? Everyone’s having a great time here, including Bradley Whitford as Rosaline’s bemused dad, Minnie Driver as her barbed-tongue nurse and hunky Sean Teale as the soldier who reluctantly joins Rosaline on her schemes, wondering when she’ll see the light.

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