I Want You Back

2022
15
1h 56m

IMDb RATING

6.5/10

25K

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Charlie Day and Jenny Slate in I Want You Back (2022)

Peter and Emma thought they were on the precipice of life's biggest moments - marriage, kids, and houses in the suburbs - until their respective partners dumped them. Horrified to learn that the loves of their lives have already moved on, Peter and Emma hatch a hilarious plan to win back their exes with unexpected results.

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Comedy Romance

Newly-dumped thirtysomethings Peter and Emma team up to sabotage their exes' new relationships and win them back for good.Newly-dumped thirtysomethings Peter and Emma team up to sabotage their exes' new relationships and win them back for good.Newly-dumped thirtysomethings Peter and Emma team up to sabotage their exes' new relationships and win them back for good.

Director
- Jason Orley
Writers
- Isaac Aptaker
- Elizabeth Berger
Stars

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IMDb RATING

6.5/10

25K

YOUR RATING

Director
- Jason Orley
Writers
- Isaac Aptaker
- Elizabeth Berger
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 2 nominations

Videos4

Photos15

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Trivia
The shocked woman in the play's audience is the actual mother of the girl on stage playing Audrey.

Goofs
In Noah's bedroom, Peter hides in a trunk and he throws all the clothes on the floor. When Noah comes in, no clothes are visible.

Quotes
Emma: [singing] Suddenly Seymour, is going inside me.
[thinking out loud]
Emma: That can't be right.

Connections
Features Boy Meets World (1993)

Soundtracks
I'm Yours, You're Mine
Written by Anna Gordy Gaye (as Anna Gaye) and William Stevenson
Performed by Marvin Gaye and Mary Wells
Courtesy of Motown Records
Under license from Universal Music Enterprises

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Featured review

7/10

Pleasant

I Want You Back meets the bare minimum for the rom-com genre: it's sweet and funny. Based on so many others in the genre, this is a harder bar to meet than one may think. Day is good, and Slate is a treasure; they play their friendship turned (spoiler...I guess?) romance with a When Harry Met Sally... influence and confidence that is as unashamed as it is corny. The secret weapon, though, is Eastwood; he needs to do more comedy like this and less copying of his dad's beady-eyed, masculine stoicism.