Now Streaming: ‘Materialists’ Does Rom-Com, Sans Romance or Comedy

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Have you ever looked at one of the great love triangle rom-coms of yore and asked yourself the question, what if someone did this story—literally, this exact same story—only without the romance or the comedy?

It doesn’t matter what your answer is. The point is that Celine Song answered yes, apparently, because she proceeded to not just write Materialists but also direct it as well, so now we all get to experience the answer to this question no one else asked.

Lucy ( Dakota Johnson ) is a 30-something matchmaker living her best single-by-choice life in NYC and crushing it. She’s the top performer at Adore, the elite matchmaking service where she works attempting to pair off high net-worth si

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