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Love, Rosie (film)

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Love, Rosie
UK theatrical release poster
Directed byChristian Ditter
Screenplay byJuliette Towhidi
Based onWhere Rainbows End
by Cecelia Ahern
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyChristian Rein
Edited byTony Cranstoun
Music byRalph Wengenmayr
Production
companies
Distributed by
  • Lionsgate (United Kingdom)
  • Constantin Film (Germany)
Release dates
  • 6 October 2014 (2014-10-06) (London)
  • 22 October 2014 (2014-10-22) (United Kingdom)
  • 30 October 2014 (2014-10-30) (Germany)
Running time
102 minutes[1]
Countries
  • United Kingdom
  • Germany
LanguageEnglish
Box office$25.5 million[1]

Love, Rosie is a 2014 romantic comedy-drama film directed by Christian Ditter from a screenplay by Juliette Towhidi, based on the 2004 novel Where Rainbows End by Irish author Cecelia Ahern. The film stars Lily Collins and Sam Claflin, with Christian Cooke, Tamsin Egerton, Suki Waterhouse, Jamie Beamish and Jaime Winstone in supporting roles.

Plot

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Rosie and Alex are childhood best friends. During Rosie's eighteenth birthday party, Alex kisses her whilst they are drunk and realises that he has feelings for her, but Rosie passes out from the alcohol. The next day, while nursing a hangover and having had her stomach pumped, Rosie regrets having got drunk and tells Alex that she wishes that the night had never happened. He interprets her words as Rosie wanting to just be friends, not realising that she had no recollection of the night before.

Greg, the "fittest guy in their year", asks Rosie to the school dance. She'd originally intended to go with Alex, but accepts Greg's offer after learning that Alex is thinking about going with Bethany, the most popular girl in their year. After the dance, Rosie has sex with Greg, but the condom slips off inside her. Alex helps bring her to the emergency room, and tells her on the way home that he's been accepted to Harvard. Rosie aspires to one day run her own hotel, inspired by her father who works in a hotel as a valet, and Alex encourages her to apply for a hotel management course at Boston College so they can go to university together in America.

Rosie applies and gets accepted into the programme. Delighted, she rushes to Alex's home to tell him but finds him having sex with Bethany, which causes her to vomit.

Rosie discovers that she is pregnant but refuses to tell Alex, fearing that he will forgo his chance to study at Harvard to help take care of her. After he leaves for the United States, Rosie befriends Ruby, the girl working at their local pharmacy, who suggests she give the baby up for adoption. Rosie gives birth to a daughter, changing her mind last-minute about the adoption, and names the baby Katie. One day while out with Katie, Rosie runs into Bethany, whom Alex learns of Rosie's pregnancy from. He comes to visit her, and she asks him to be Katie's godfather.

Five years later, Rosie and Ruby work at a hotel as a housekeeper and a receptionist respectively. Alex still lives in Boston and Rosie visits him. They have a fun night out talking and visiting places together, but the following morning, she discovers that his girlfriend Sally is pregnant. Rosie criticises Alex's living situation and tries to discuss it with him but he rebuffs her, saying that at least their child will have both parents. Infuriated, she leaves Boston immediately.

On a whim, Rosie sends Greg a drawing by Katie. Greg, who had initially fled to Ibiza upon learning of her pregnancy, rushes to her and they get into a relationship, marrying in 2009. Alex and Rosie reconcile, and Rosie later learns that Alex split from Sally after discovering that the baby was not his. She bumps into Bethany, now a famous model, and suggests that she look up Alex on an upcoming trip to the US.

Five more years later, Rosie's mother and father have retired, sold everything, and gone on holiday together. Unfortunately, Rosie's father dies from a heart attack whilst on holiday. Alex attends the funeral; meanwhile, Greg gets drunk and causes a scene. This prompts Alex to write Rosie a note saying that she deserves better and that he can be that better man. However, Greg intercepts the note and hides it from her.

Soon after, Rosie and Ruby discover from a reservation at a sister hotel that Greg is cheating on her. Rosie kicks him out and, while disposing of his things, she finds Alex's letter from over a year ago. She calls him immediately, but Bethany answers with Alex. Rosie discovers that Bethany has moved in with Alex and they are engaged, and they happily invite Rosie to be the 'best man' at their wedding.

Rosie and Ruby plot to interrupt the wedding and confess to Alex beforehand, but fail, as the church ceremony is over by the time she arrives due to weather interrupting their flights. At the reception, Rosie gives an emotional speech, talking about her and Alex's childhoods together, and telling Alex that she will always love him, like a brother and sister do. Katie, now twelve, brings her best friend Toby with her to the wedding, their friendship reminiscent of Rosie and Alex's when they were children.

During a dance, Toby kisses Katie, who pushes him away and runs outside to the roof terrace. Rosie and Alex follow, learning of what Toby did, and comfort her. Alex says that Katie might regret pushing him away, and that Toby may never recover and find someone to replace her. Katie asks if that's what happened to Alex and Rosie. Toby then finds Katie and apologises for what he did. As he asks her to forget what just happened, Katie kisses him and they run off together, laughing. In that moment, Alex learns that Rosie does not remember the kiss that they shared on her eighteenth birthday. He realizes that he had been mistaken in interpreting her desire to forget that night as her wanting to stay platonic.

When they return home, Rosie decides to fulfil her ambition of starting her own hotel, and uses her inheritance from her father to buy a quaint property overlooking the ocean. Alex is her second guest - when he arrives, he reveals that he ended his marriage with Bethany soon after their wedding, and shares with Rosie a recurring dream he has had about the two of them being together. Rosie and Alex then kiss.

Production

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Coast of Howth with Tara Hall at the left where filming took place

Filming began in May 2013 in Toronto before moving to Dublin and Howth.[2][3]

Cast

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Reception

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Love, Rosie received negative reviews from critics. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 32% based on reviews from 57 critics, with an average rating of 4.7/10. The site's consensus states: "Lilly Collins and Sam Claflin are appealing, and they give it their all, but they're undone by Love, Rosie's silly, clichéd storyline."[4] On Metacritic, the film has a score of 44 out of 100 based on reviews from 16 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[5]

Donald Clarke of The Irish Times described Collins as "perfectly charming", but felt that "entire film is weighed down by such sloppy storytelling and by equally disordered characterisation" and gave the film one out of five stars calling it awful, but pretty.[6]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Love, Rosie (2015)". Box Office Mojo.
  2. ^ Chitwood, Adam (16 May 2013). "Production Begins on LOVE, ROSIE Starring Lily Collins and Sam Claflin". Collider. Retrieved 12 August 2013.
  3. ^ "9 unusual Irish movie locations you may not be aware of".
  4. ^ Love, Rosie at Rotten Tomatoes
  5. ^ "Love, Rosie". Metacritic.
  6. ^ Clarke, Donald. "Love, Rosie review: fake-Irish rom com bomb". The Irish Times.
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