The tight-knit friendship between two young men is disrupted when they meet an interesting woman. That's arguably the most basic description of Challengers , but it's also the premise for Poetic License , Maude Apatow's directorial debut. I couldn't help but think of the 2024 Luca Guadagnino movie during a key moment in Apatow's film, though the latter is something decidedly different but still special .

In the central triangle, the focal point is Liz (Leslie Mann), a former therapist who, in the absence of working, has turned her attention completely to her teenage daughter Dora (Nico Parker), who is just one year away from going to college. After moving to a new town so her husband (Cliff "Method Man" Smith) can work at the local university, Liz audits a poetry class in the ho

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