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PEOPLE WE MEET ON VACATIONS

US, 2026, 117 minutes, Colour.

Emily Bader, Tom Blyth, Sarah Catherine Hook, Lucien Laviscount, Miles Heizer, Jameela Jamil, Tommy Do, Molly Shannon, Alan Ruck,

Directed by Brett Haley.

This is popular material for audiences who enjoy romantic comedies. It is not one that critics liked, considering it too slight and undeveloped.

It is based on a novel by the popular novelist Emily Henry, has two attractive stars and some veteran comedians in support.

The central couple, she travelled journalist, he more retiring and introverted, have met in college, has been some summers travelling together – but there is now a distance between them. He is attending a marriage in Barcelona. She decides to travel to Barcelona to find out the truth about the relationship.

Familiar material, pleasant romantic leads, some emotional complications, some pleasant Spanish scenery…

1. The target audience? Adults in their 20s and 30s? Older audiences beyond this kind of crisis?
2. The title, the focus on the We rather than the people on vacation?
3. A variation on the romantic comedy, lasting over 10 years?
4. Introduction to Poppy, young, studies, going to Ohio, the lift with Alex, late, luggage, scatty, talking? Music, her story about growing up bullied, Alex’s reactions, listening, put off? The delay, the phone calls, having to spend the night, the setting up of the situation?
5. Poppy in the present, vacations, seemingly alone, her comments? Discovery of her job? Success, her writing, her boss? The wedding in Barcelona, the invitation, her previous engagement, phone, deciding to go? The motivations?
6. The continued story of Barcelona, the flight, encountering Alex, to the hotel, the preparations for the wedding, his brother and partner, Alex’s father, the interactions between Poppy and Alex?
7. The flashbacks, over nine summers, the first, planning to go each year, the trip to Canada, the outback, and Alex coming out of himself, Poppy and her flirting, skinny-dipping and Alex losing his clothes, Adventurous Alex? The visit to New Orleans? Her being sick on the non-visit to Norway? The relationship between the two over the years, his relationship with Sarah, the audience not seeing her, break ups and on again? The contrast with Poppy, her relationship with the chef, then with Trey?
8. The summer in Italy, the atmosphere, Sarah, the engagement, Alex and his ambitions, Sarah running the company? Poppy and her responses?
9. The absence of two years, Alex breaking with Sarah, Bobby meeting Sarah at the airport and Sarah as a flight attendant and happy with life? The preparations for the wedding, the meetings between Alex and Poppy, repairing the past two years, the kissing, the reactions, the celebration of the marriage, the dancing, the atmosphere?
10. The happy ending, the misunderstandings, Poppy resigning from her job, the encouragement of her boss, to live in Linfield coming together, and a very long preparation for their commitment to each other?