'Anyone But You' (2023)
R | December 22, 2023 | 103 mins
This isn’t what it looks like.
After an amazing first date, Bea and Ben’s fiery attraction turns ice cold — until they find themselves unexpectedly reunited at a destination wedding in Australia. So they do what any two mature adults would do: pretend to be a couple.
Cast: Glen Powell, Sydney Sweeney [+]
Director: Will Gluck
Writers: Ilana Wolpert, Will Gluck
Producers: Will Gluck, Joe Roth, Jeff Kirschenbaum
Cinematographer: Danny Ruhlmann
Editors: Tia Nolan, Kim Boritz-Brehm
Music: Este Haim, Christopher Stracey
Distribution: Sony Pictures Entertainment
Bea: Why are you so out of breath?
Ben: I’m fine!
Bea: You have like a 10-pack!
Ben: I’m not out of shape! I bench 295, I just don’t do cardio.
Bea: Oh my god, you’re hot girl fit!
Ben: I am not hot girl fit!
Bea: Saying something is cringe is cringe, old man.
Bea: Titanic me.
Ben: What?
Bea: Titanic me.
Ben: No. That is so lame.
Bea: Exactly. The only people who would do something this lame are the ones who know how lame it is, but are in the first stages of liking each other, so they’re totally comfortable in their mutual lameness. Trust me.
Bea: Just figure this out, please.
Ben: Okay. We just suck face in front of everybody. Half of them think they set us up anyway.
Bea: No, that’s too much. We need to do something that’s more hidden, so it feels more real and not some fuckboy wedding hookup.
Ben: You keep calling me a fuckboy like it’s an insult. I own that shit.
Pete: Bea wants us to tell him how much she likes him, so he lets his heart down and goes to her. Some cupids kill with arrows, and some with traps.
Roger: That was good. I like that.
Pete: I just made it up.
- Bea and Ben are both named after the characters of Beatrice and Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing.
- Last film to feature the 2023 revision of the 1993 Columbia Pictures opening logo until the release of Paddington in Peru (2024).
- Halle and Claudia are based on Hero and Claudio in Much Ado About Nothing.
- Quotes from Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing are used in the dialogue and the movie’s title cards.
- There is a reference to Olive Penderghast, the main character from Easy A (2010). Will Gluck directed both films.
- According to an anonymous source in The Hollywood Reporter, Sydney Sweeney agreed to take a supporting role in Madame Web in order to get Anyone But You made.
- The bakery where they retrieve the wedding cake is named Dogberry’s. Dogberry was the name of the constable in Much Ado About Nothing.
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