The film had its world premiere at the on January 26, 2020, and was released in select theaters by and digitally on on July 10, 2020 | It stars , , , and , and follows two strangers who meet at a wedding only to get stuck in a |
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Accolades [ ] Award Date of ceremony Category Recipient s Result Ref | While was a fundamentally important starting point for the use of a time loop in a romantic comedy, Barbakow and Siara knew they needed to distance their script from the film |
A disgusted Sarah kills herself, restarting the day | The next day, it is revealed that Sarah has been waking up in Abe's room having spent the night of November 8 with him and he advises her to leave before she is seen |
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Sarah reciprocates his feelings and they kiss while she presses the detonator | This led to starting with Nyles already within the time loop, making the film like "a sequel to a movie that doesn't exist" according to Siara, and then adding Sarah as a second character within the loop to serve as a point of navigation for the audience |
as Darla, a woman in a bar• They imagined the script as "an absurdist comedic take on , centered on a despondent thirtysomething who travels to Palm Springs to kill himself, only to slowly rediscover a sense of meaning in his life.
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