No Stranger Than Love

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No Stranger Than Love
No stranger than love poster.jpg
Theatrical release poster
Directed byNick Wernham
Written by Steve Adams
Produced byPaul Fler
Starring Alison Brie
Colin Hanks
Justin Chatwin
Dylan Everett
Terry Jones
CinematographyMichael LeBlanc
Edited by Michelle Szemberg
Music by Geoff Zanelli
Production
companies
Pangaea Pictures
Innis Lake Entertainment
Distributed by Orion Pictures
Momentum Pictures
Release dates
  • April 30, 2015 (2015-04-30)(NBFF)
  • June 17, 2016 (2016-06-17)
Running time
89 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish

No Stranger Than Love is a 2015 Canadian romantic comedy film directed by Nick Wernham and written by Steve Adams. The film stars Alison Brie, Justin Chatwin and Colin Hanks. The film was released on June 17, 2016, in a limited release and through video on demand by Orion Pictures.

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Plot summary

Lucy Sherrington (Alison Brie), a high school art teacher living in a small town, is romantically pursued by every male she knows including students and the high school principal. Lucy turns them down because she is contemplating having an affair with the married high school football coach, Clint Coburn (Colin Hanks). In order to reassure Lucy, who is having doubts about their relationship, Clint vows not to have sex with her until she tells him she loves him. Lucy reluctantly tells him she loves him, however immediately after a black hole opens in the floor of Lucy's living room sucking in Clint.

Cast

Production

In June 2013, it was announced Alison Brie, Justin Chatwin and Colin Hanks will star in the film, with Nick Wernham directing from a screenplay by Steve Adams. Paul Fler will serve as producer, while Fred Roos, Jeffrey Latimer, Richard Wernham and Simon Wernham will serve as executive producers under their Innis Lake Entertainment and Pangaea Pictures banners, respectively. [1]

Principal photography began on May 27, 2013, in Toronto, [2] and concluded on July 5, 2013. [3]

Release

The romantic comedy premiered at the Newport Beach Film Festival on April 30, 2015, as the closing night film. [4] It was also the closing night film at Skyway Film Festival on June 14. [5] On June 17, 2016, the film was released in select theaters in Canada, distributed by Entertainment One. On the same day, it was also released in the United States in a limited release and through video on demand by Orion Pictures and Momentum Pictures. [6]

Critical response

On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 7% based on 14 reviews, with an average rating of 3.57/10. [7] On Metacritic, the film has a score of 29 out of 100, based on 8 critics. [8] Leslie Felperin of The Hollywood Reporter gave the film a negative review writing: "It’s not a problem there’s a hole, as it were, in the common-sense logic of the film’s world; it’s that there’s a big, gaping hole where the illogic should be, a whole lot of nothing where there should be metaphor, playfulness, all that juicy, enigmatic, magical-realism stuff that helps films like Being John Malkovich and its many knockoffs become fodder for film-studies essays." [9]

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