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Young Werther Trailer Sets Release Date for Douglas Booth & Alison Pill Rom-Com

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Lionsgate has shared the Young Werther trailer for the upcoming romantic comedy, starring Douglas Booth (My Salinger Year) as the titular writer and Alison Pill as Charlotte (Scott Pilgrim vs. the World). The film is based on the 1774 tragic romance novel The Sorrows of Young Wether by Johann Wolfgang Goethe. Check out the Young … Read more

TIFF 2024: Young Werther, Addition, My Father’s Daughter | Festivals & Awards

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Adapting Goethe’s Sturm und Drang classic “The Sorrows of Young Werther” into a buoyant, bright Canadian rom-com feels like a horrendously awful idea on paper. And, for the first few minutes of José Lourenço’s film, I was convinced it was. This is an aggressively quirky movie that feels buried in twee in its opening scenes. … Read more