After the two lovebirds by phone who don’t know how to click “Delete” finally meet cute at the opera Orpheus and Eurydice, she’s egged on by her obnoxious sister and he’s coached by his gay best friend and supervised by, of all people, Celine Dion, who plays a romance counselor mouthing impossible dialogue (“Love takes courage-open yourself to the universe”) punctuated by a surfeit of lugubrious songs sung by-you guessed it-Celine Dion. Mira and Rob, played by played by the attractive pair Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Sam Heushan, suffer through text messages like “I begin every day thinking about you” and “I’m on the bed where you should be sleeping beside me” to “I would give anything to be naked with you right now.” We are asked to believe she’s an otherwise talented illustrator-author of children’s books and he’s some sort of British music critic for a fake New York newspaper, although the only level of ambition he ever demonstrates is interviewing Celine Dion. So the basic reason for the plot, inspired loosely by You’ve Got Mail, makes no sense, and neither does anything else in the movie that follows. Strouse, doesn’t know that mobile providers protect their customers by no longer servicing old discarded mobile numbers. She doesn’t know the number has been re-assigned to a boy named Rob, and the director-writer, James C. The forced and dubious premise: Still depressed two years after the death of her fiancé in a car accident, a girl named Mira decides the only way to stay close and keep his memory alive is to leave messages, poems and unspeakable mush on his old cell phone. ![]() ![]() Starring: Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Sam Heughan, Celine Dion
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