No Stranger Than Love

Plot summary

Lucy Sherrington (Alison Brie), a high school art teacher living in a small town, is romantically pursued by every male she knows including students and the high school principal. Lucy turns them down because she is contemplating having an affair with the married high school football coach, Clint Coburn (Colin Hanks). In order to reassure Lucy, who is having doubts about their relationship, Clint vows not to have sex with her until she tells him she loves him. Lucy reluctantly tells him she loves him, however immediately after a black hole opens in the floor of Lucy's living room sucking in Clint.

Cast

Production

The film was shot in Toronto in June 2013, produced by Paul Fler.

Release

No Stranger Than Love premiered at the Newport Beach Film Festival on April 30, 2015, as the closing night film. It was also the closing night film at Skyway Film Festival on June 14. On June 17, 2016, No Stranger Than Love was released in select theaters in Canada, distributed by Entertainment One. On the same day, the film was released in U.S in a limited release and through video on demand by Orion Pictures and Momentum Pictures.

Critical response

The film holds an 8% rating, based on 12 reviews, with an average rating of 3.1/10. On Metacritic, the film has a score of 29 out of 100, based on 8 critics. Leslie Felperin of The Hollywood Reporter gave the film a negative review writing: "It’s not a problem there’s a hole, as it were, in the common-sense logic of the film’s world; it’s that there’s a big, gaping hole where the illogic should be, a whole lot of nothing where there should be metaphor, playfulness, all that juicy, enigmatic, magical-realism stuff that helps films like Being John Malkovich and its many knockoffs become fodder for film-studies essays."