Endings, Beginnings

Daphne, a thirty-something artist, ends a long relationship and leaves her job to start over, moving into the pool house belonging to her half-sister. She intends to stay away from romance for a while, but at a New Year's party she meets two men: Frank, a reckless type, and Jack, a writer. She becomes involved with both, and the two turn out to be close friends, leaving her torn between them as she tries to work out what she wants for herself.

Drake Doremus directed and wrote the screenplay with Jardine Libaire. The film is the sixth feature he directed, following Like Crazy, Breathe In, Equals, Newness and Zoe, and it came before Next Life. Shailene Woodley plays Daphne, with Jamie Dornan as Jack, Sebastian Stan as Frank and Matthew Gray Gubler as Adrian. It runs 110 minutes and was produced through Protagonist Pictures, CJ Entertainment and Samuel Goldwyn Films.

The film was released in June 2020. On IMDb it holds a rating of 5.6 out of 10 from around 8,300 votes, and on TMDB it stands at 6 out of 10 from roughly 265 votes. A critics' score of 5.3 out of 10, drawn from 75 reviews, sits below the audience figure on IMDb and close to the TMDB one, indicating a divided response.