Man Up (2015)
Directed by Ben Palmer
A 34 year old single woman, Nancy, hung-over again, exhausted by the endless fruitless set ups by her friends, traveling across London to toast another 10 years of her parent's successful happy magical marriage runs in with a 40 year old divorcee, Jack, who mistakes her for his 24 year old blind date. Nancy, deciding to go with it, happens to hop on the most chaotic yet hilarious journey of her life which neither of them will ever forget.
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What critics compared Man Up to
Four Weddings And A Funeral, Bridget Jones’s Diary , er… For whatever reason, Brits don’t do romantic comedies too often or too well, especially if you remove Richard Curtis and Hugh Grant from the equation.
As in “Bridget Jones’s Diary,” single life is presented as an obstacle course of undue social pressure even for women of an early certain age: Nancy is just 34, but as she informs her married, prying older sister, she’s already “too old for this s–t.”
The best romantic comedies in recent years have often been small independent films, lurking inside other genres such as fantasy (Ruby Sparks), science-fiction (The One I Love) and family discord (In a World), so that they can comment on the tangle of attraction and personality without being obvious.