Warner Bros. and HBO Max has nabbed “Am I OK?,” a romantic comedy starring Dakota Johnson as a woman grappling with her sexuality. The movie premiered this week to mostly positive revie…
Tig Notaro and Stephanie Allynne co-directed “Am I OK?,” which was written by Lauren Pomerantz and produced by Picturestart, Gloria Sanchez Productions and Johnson’s TeaTime Pictures.“Am I OK?” follows 32-year-old Lucy , who lives in Los Angeles and figures out later in life that the reason her dates with the opposite gender never end with anything more than a handshake is because, well, she’s not attracted to men.
, critic Amy Nicholson had less positive things to say about “Am I OK?,” calling it “frustratingly passive.” However, she praised the on-screen dynamic between the two female leads. “Johnson and Mizuno do have great repartee,” Nicholson wrote. “They’re both quick with a prickly quip.”described the film as “breezily charming,” adding, “It won me over for its layered study of a close female friendship and the power such relationships can hold, even when they fracture.
Johnson, who also starred in the Sundance comedy “Cha Cha Real Smooth,” said she found herself drawn to the raw emotion under the film’s comedic surface. “It’s a story and subject matter that I thought was really cool, in the shape of a female buddy comedy, but there’s some very real and honest and difficult internal landscapes happening within these women,” Johnson said atThis year’s Sundance Film Festival, which is running online through Jan. 30, has been lighter on the sales.
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