'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

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Name

Character

Bea

Ben

Claudia

Pete

Halle

Carol

Leo

Jonathan

Roger

Innie

Margaret

Release Date

December 22, 2023

Runtime

103 minutes

Production Companies

Columbia Pictures, SK Global, RK Films, Olive Bridge Entertainment

MPAA Rating

Language

English

Country

United States, Australia

Filming Dates

February 2023 – April 2023

Filming Locations

Jones Bay Wharf

Pyrmont, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Where Ben and Bea part before boarding the yacht.

Palm Beach

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Beach sequences.

Sydney Opera House

2 Macquarie Street, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Where Ben finds Bea at the end of the film.

Inland Private Residence

Terrey Hills, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

The beach house.

Sydney Harbour

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Yacht party.

Marks Park

Bondi Beach Sydney New South Wales Australia

The wedding location.

Sydney Cricket Ground

Moore Park, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Where Pete picks up Bea and Ben at the airport.

Queen Victoria Building

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Where Ben and Pete collect flowers for the wedding.

HARS Aviation Museum

Albion Park New South Wales Australia

Interior of the airplane.

Toby’s Estate

Barangaroo, New South Wales, Australia

The cafe where Bea and Ben meet.

Barrenjoey Lighthouse

1199D Barrenjoey Rd., Palm Beach, NSW 2108, Australia

Spotted atop the Palm Beach peninsula.

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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