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lauren's avatar

Watched idea of you. Great escapism! In a Hollywood where every other actor like Jon hamm, whose ex wrote the movie , dumps his first wife for young flesh, it defiantly challenges the age gap bias for women. No wonder it’s a huge hit!

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Jerry Weiss's avatar

I'm with Lauren on this. Great Hollywood escapism flick!

High-end furnishings, beautiful jet-setters touring Europe while having steamy sex, peppered with high-amp concert footage. Age difference is just a background gimmick. It's about "the idea of you," not the reality: She gets the hot young guy, he gets the hot older mom.

Hard to think of something that'd be a bigger downer to the whole thing than a discussion of fertility. (But I agree that the "5 years later" ending was a clunker.)

Also you guys never mentioned it, but I loved that Selene and her 16-year-old daughter have such a close relationship -- a real change of pace from the sullen teen-age nastiness typically portrayed on screen.

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lauren's avatar

Your commentary would’ve been different. If you had asked a woman who was single and over 40 to join your discussion.

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