Get the latest gossip
‘Picture This’ Review: Prime Video’s Charming Rom-Com Remake Follows an Enterprising Photographer Speed Dating to Save Her Business
A down-on-her-luck photographer must go on a series of dates before her sister marries in this cutesy rom-com from Amazon Prime Video.
While Pia’s second candidate (Nikesh Patel) and their mounting, embarrassing scenarios remain strikingly similar, her other bachelors are given a slight facelift for a broader comedic effect, like the bossy, buffoonish son of a Bombay bigwig’s (Asim Chaudhry) neurotic tendencies and the hippie-dippy spiritualist’s (Phil Dunster) questionable beliefs. While one side of the frame shows Pia racing to meet her mother at the bank, conveying her struggle as a hapless klutz, the other half displays a henna ceremony interstitial, elegantly establishing the beauty of tradition and community. Much like Paolo Genovese’s “Perfect Strangers” franchise crossed over with remakes worldwide in a short span of time, Nathan Ramos-Park and Shuang Hu’s original concept has tremendous crossover appeal.
Or read this on Variety