About Fate

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About Fate

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Released Sep 9, 2022

1h 40m

Holiday

Romance

Comedy

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Margot Hayes (Emma Roberts) and Griffin Reed (Thomas Mann) may well be the perfect couple. The only trouble is they've never met and they're both about to tie the knot with someone else. But all that is about to change when fate places them in each other's lives and opens their eyes to true love.

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Luke Y. Thompson

AV Club

Despite the off-putting blandness of its poster, soundtrack, and set-up, About Fate proves surprisingly charming.

Sep 19, 2022

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Lisa Kennedy

New York Times

It would all be pretty boilerplate, but Mann’s anchoring appeal — his lean into Griffin’s modesty and decency — saves the movie from a sorrier fate.

Sep 9, 2022

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Elizabeth Weitzman

TheWrap

The women are nuts, the men are clueless and the production is so cheap you could pass the time spotting every mistake no one bothered to fix.

Sep 9, 2022

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Steven Warner

In Review Online

For a romantic comedy, About Fate is about as generic a title as they come, and it certainly matches the film that follows, a predictable slice of milquetoast pap that would feel snug at home on any basic cable network or streaming service.

Sep 30, 2022

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Sandie Angulo Chen

Common Sense Media

Though this isn't the sort of romcom moviegoers are likely to turn to year after year for comfort and joy, it's worth a watch to see the cast and the funny wedding sequence in the third act.

Rated: 3/5

Sep 22, 2022

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Natasha Alvar

Cultured Vultures

The tragedy here is that About Fate won't have as much traction as any of those inane Netflix holiday rom-coms, when it's precisely the kind of movie we rom-com lovers deserve.

Rated: 7.5/10

Sep 13, 2022

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Tammy B

Great feel good movie!

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

09/11/22

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Larry

This was a excellent romantic comedy movie. Acting was great and story was very good. I hope it makes it to all theatres as it really is a great movie!! Everyone should see it.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

09/10/22

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Gerson E

Great movie to remind us the valuable little things in life about love

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

09/08/24

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Jon R

Potentially one of the worst movies I’ve ever seen. The cast has zero chemistry, the script makes no sense and the people that made the movie seemed to have lost track of the timeline of the movie. The main characters meet and then an hour later the guy is willing to commit breaking & entering for their random girl? The main guy makes mention of how he & the Emma Roberts character met “last night” but actually met just a few hours ago. At the wedding the fake “Kip” is asked to give a speech at his girlfriend’s sisters wedding when he’s not in the wedding and the people getting married hadn’t met him maybe 2 hours ago. The real Kip is oddly obsessed with this tux. The 2 Kips make this whole effort to not knock over the wedding cake cause it would be a disaster while fighting, but don’t see that fighting during a wedding is inappropriate. The ex girlfriend bursts into the main guys apartment at 2am cause she wants her toothbrush. Endless examples of how dumb this movie was. It’s like the movie was written by aliens that only heard about how humans behave from a book they read.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

08/12/24

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Scott V

Very good for a rom com. What I think people don't understand is that this genre is probably the hardest ever to be good since it's been done a million times over. You have to like rom coms and be in the mood. But I thought this one was a hit rather than a miss.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

04/04/24

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Mary B

This movie was so cute! Griffin and Margot have the craziest meet cute (I guess, technically, their second meeting) and things get crazier from there. It's a feel good rom com for sure, I'll add this to my list of feel good movies.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/30/24

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Margot Hayes (Emma Roberts) and Griffin Reed (Thomas Mann) may well be the perfect couple. The only trouble is they've never met and they're both about to tie the knot with someone else. But all that is about to change when fate places them in each other's lives and opens their eyes to true love.

Director: Marius Vaysberg
Producer: Marina Bespalov, Sergei Bespalov, Marius Vaysberg, Vincent Newman, Sergey Livnev
Screenwriter: Tiffany Paulsen
Distributor: United Artists Releasing
Production Co: Aldamisa Entertainment, Vincent Newman Entertainment, Contentious Media
Rating: R (A Sexual Reference|Some Language)
Genre: Holiday, Romance, Comedy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Sep 9, 2022, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Sep 9, 2022
Box Office (Gross USA): $6.1K
Runtime: 1h 40m

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