114 min | PG-13 | November 26, 2025 | Focus Features
David Freyne asks who you choose when you die and meet everyone you ever loved in the afterlife. Elizabeth Olsen anchors a romantic comedy about impossible choices.
High-concept romantic comedies live or die on whether they take their premise seriously. Eternity does. Joan dies and arrives in an afterlife where souls get one week to choose where to spend eternity. She must decide between Larry, the man she spent her life with, and Luke, her first love who died young and has been waiting decades for her. The premise could be treacly or played for cheap laughs. The film treats it with genuine emotion and intelligence.
Elizabeth Olsen plays Joan with confusion and grief that slowly gives way to clarity. She is a woman forced to examine her entire life through the lens of competing loves. Miles Teller plays Larry with vulnerability masked by bluster. He knows he might lose her and cannot hide his desperation. Callum Turner plays Luke with the idealized memory of young love frozen in time. All three actors find real people in what could have been archetypes. Da’Vine Joy Randolph and John Early provide support as afterlife guides with their own perspectives on love and choice.
David Freyne co-wrote and directed with a visual style that renders the afterlife as mundane bureaucracy with moments of transcendent beauty. The production design creates a liminal space that feels both familiar and otherworldly. The script by Freyne and Pat Cunnane does smart work exploring how we construct narratives about our lives and loves. The film refuses easy answers. Joan’s choice matters because both options are legitimate.
This is a romantic comedy for adults who understand that love is complicated and choices have consequences. The film earns its emotional resolution without manufactured sentiment. This is thoughtful genre filmmaking that respects its audience.