review by Rhonda @ ouchmagazine.com
Great ready to watch a kooky, charming, and deeply funny dark rom-com that captures the beautiful disaster of modern dating. OH HI! Is an enjoyable ride that manages to be both bizarre and heartfelt — and for anyone who's ever tried a little too hard to love, it’ll hit surprisingly close to home.
In OH HI!, writer-director Sophie Brooks delivers a delightfully off-kilter romantic comedy that feels like a sweet date gone wildly, bizarrely off the rails — and that’s exactly the point. With sharp humor, sincere emotion, and a growing undercurrent of chaos, the film explores the messiness of modern relationships through a lens that's both relatable and slightly unhinged.
Molly Gordon is magnetic as Iris, a woman hopelessly (and perhaps a bit obsessively) convinced that she and her new boyfriend Isaac (played with low-key charm by Logan Lerman) are soulmates. The couple heads off on their first romantic getaway to a picturesque farmhouse, and from the start, there’s a sense that this trip isn’t going to go as planned. What begins as a dreamy escape quickly devolves into a series of awkward missteps, miscommunications, and escalating emotional mayhem.
The brilliance of OH HI! lies in its tonal balance. Brooks doesn't lean too hard into absurdity; instead, she grounds the comedy in recognizable human behavior — the anxiety of wanting to be loved, the awkwardness of early romance, and the desperate desire to make things work, even when they clearly aren’t. The humor bubbles up naturally from these very real insecurities, making the characters feel like people we’ve known (or been).
The feature is produced by David Brooks, Dan Clifton, Julie Waters, Sophie Brooks, and Gordon. Evan Dyal, Justin Brown, Molly C. Quinn, Matthew M. Welty, Elan Gale, Evan Moore, and Sabina Friedman-Seitz are executive producers.
