By her side is her closest confidante Janet (the great Minnie Driver), an accomplished caregiver who often and hilariously has to remind various skeptics of her credentials as a registered nurse. Serving eyerolls to the many septuagenarian suitors that her father Adrian (Bradley Whitford) lines up for her, Rosaline hopes to scare them off with crazy made-up stories, like having an imaginary friend that follows her everywhere. Secretly canoodling with old-fashioned romantic Romeo (an affable Kyle Allen, sporting a purposely ridiculous Prince Charming bob) at the gardens and terraces of her family’s Verona estate, the headstrong Rosaline longs for a free and adventurous life outside family confines - not unlike Disney’s Princess Jasmine - refusing to be tied down with an arranged marriage. Weber and Scott Neustadter (“The Spectacular Now”) have thoughtfully adapted, switching Serle’s contemporary setting back to Shakespeare’s original period.īut the film’s winsome disposition also owes largely to leading lady Kaitlyn Dever, who makes a feisty dish out of Rosaline’s sarcasm and independent personality with impeccable comic timing. Rebecca Serle introduced much of that in her 2013 YA novel “When You Were Mine,” which writers Michael H. Still, her film succeeds at heartily seizing the timely idea at the core of those titles, displaying a feminist and feminine understanding of young women with desires, fears and preoccupations. Considering countless modernized costume dramas and TV shows in the vein of “Bridgerton,” “Dickinson” and Lena Dunham’s nifty medieval coming-of-ager “Catherine Called Birdy” - not to mention iconic ’90s flicks like “Clueless” and “Cruel Intentions” that transposed classic texts to the present day - Maine’s likeminded outing might not render as instantly original.
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