Always Be My Maybe - 2019 - 7/10
Despite sporadic lulls, this is a sharp RomCom, throwback to classic, pre-Hallmark romances.
Next door neighbors, childhood best friends, Marcus and Sasha seemed destined for … until they weren’t.
Sasha is a jet-setting restaurateur and chef, Marcus is a blue collar HVAC tech.
After a sixteen year absence, she returns to San Francisco and bumps into, who else?
Mind you, she instantly recognizes a setup, as does he, and neither want to be hurt again.
Not enough San Francisco scenery to boast about, but the film is funny!
Barbed dialogue, great one-liners, weird situations – all almost undercut by the skoffy patches.
Romantics will enjoy and sigh with this. Cynics will note the money and social gap.