The Idea of You

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Forty-year-old Solène is a divorced mother raising her daughter alone, still trying to heal after her ex-husband left her for a younger woman. When he cancels at the last minute on the Coachella trip he was supposed to take with their daughter, Solène decides to take her to the festival herself. That decision will change her life in a way she never saw coming. At the festival she meets Hayes Campbell, the 24-year-old frontman of August Moon, the most popular boy band in the world. A whirlwind romance soon begins between them. But Hayes's superstar status confronts their relationship with unavoidable challenges, and Solène realises that life under his spotlight may weigh on her far more than she expected. Directed by Michael Showalter and adapted from Robinne Lee's novel, this 116-minute 2024 romantic comedy stars Anne Hathaway and Nicholas Galitzine.