Girl meets guy. Girl falls for guy. Guy mightiness not beryllium wholly truthful pinch girl. So what does a modern female do? Well, Sophie Brooks‘ “Oh, Hi!” mightiness beryllium nan twisted reply to a very relatable dilemma.

Billed arsenic a “subversive rom-com” to not springiness excessively overmuch away, “Oh, Hi!” premiered astatine nan 2025 Sundance Film Festival. Molly Gordon and Logan Lerman prima arsenic Iris and Isaac, a mates whose first romanticist getaway soon goes awry. The explanation teases that nan “odd acheronian drama takes connected nan highs and lows of modern making love and nan ways it makes america each a small crazy.”

Geraldine Viswanathan and John Reynolds co-star. Brooks wrote and directed “Oh, Hi!,” pinch Gordon having a communicative by in installments (she besides produces). “Oh, Hi!” is screening astatine nan 2025 Tribeca Festival June 13 and 14 earlier debuting successful theaters this July.

Brooks, whose first film “The Boy Downstairs” starred Zosia Mamet arsenic a female who has to unrecorded supra her ex-boyfriend successful a caller apartment, is nary alien to challenging nan romance genre. Brooks told IndieWire that “Oh, Hi!” was inspired by “The Worst Person successful nan World,” “Normal People,” and nan HBO adjustment of “Scenes from a Marriage” pinch Jessica Chastain and Oscar Isaac.

“It’s each astir tone, right? It’s specified a bladed line,” Brooks said. “The movie toes this really bladed statement of reside and perspective. It was really important to maine that some characters felt for illustration existent group and afloat rounded, realized versions of themselves. It’s super-vulnerable, it’s incredibly quality to want emotion and to want to springiness emotion and beryllium loved. Sometimes women, specifically, who opportunity that are considered hopeless aliases crazy, and I deliberation that’s really unfair. Iris is simply a really brave character, and it’s a cleanable large wind of everything benignant of landing successful a measurement astatine nan extremity of nan first enactment wherever you’re like, ‘Oh, if those things hadn’t happened, she astir apt wouldn’t person done this crazy thing.’ I dream that group tin subordinate to like, ‘Oh, I wouldn’t do this, but successful a cleanable storm, possibly I would.’ … The extremity is to do it successful a funny, lighthearted measurement that’s entertaining to people.”

She added, “Because, inherently, nan movie’s astir miscommunication and really these 2 group are not connected nan aforesaid page, that moment, nan assemblage is seeing his position successful a segment wherever it’s expected to beryllium astir her.”

“Oh, Hi!” is produced by Brooks, Gordon, David Brooks, Dan Clifton, and Julie Waters.

Sony Pictures Classics will merchandise “Oh, Hi!” successful theaters connected July 25. Check retired nan trailer below.00