''No Stranger Than Love'' is a 2015 Canadian
romantic comedy
Romantic comedy (also known as romcom or rom-com) is a subgenre of comedy and slice of life fiction, focusing on lighthearted, humorous plot lines centered on romantic ideas, such as how true love is able to surmount most obstacles. In a typica ...
film directed by Nick Wernham and written by Steve Adams. The film stars
Alison Brie
Alison Brie Schermerhorn (born December 29, 1982) is an American actress. Her breakthrough came with the role of Trudy Campbell in the drama series ''Mad Men'' (2007–2015), which won her a Screen Actors Guild Award. She gained recognition fo ...
,
Justin Chatwin
Justin Chatwin (born October 31, 1982) is a Canadian actor. He began his career in 2001 with a brief appearance in the musical comedy ''Josie and the Pussycats''. Following his breakthrough role as Robbie Ferrier in the blockbuster ''War of the ...
and
Colin Hanks
Colin Lewes Hanks (born November 24, 1977) is an American actor. He has starred in films including ''Orange County'', ''King Kong'', ''The House Bunny'', ''The Great Buck Howard'', and the ''Jumanji'' film series. His television credits include ' ...
. The film was released on June 17, 2016, in a
limited release
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and through
video on demand
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by
Orion Pictures
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.
Plot summary
Lucy Sherrington (
Alison Brie
Alison Brie Schermerhorn (born December 29, 1982) is an American actress. Her breakthrough came with the role of Trudy Campbell in the drama series ''Mad Men'' (2007–2015), which won her a Screen Actors Guild Award. She gained recognition fo ...
), 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
Colin Lewes Hanks (born November 24, 1977) is an American actor. He has starred in films including ''Orange County'', ''King Kong'', ''The House Bunny'', ''The Great Buck Howard'', and the ''Jumanji'' film series. His television credits include ' ...
). 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
*
Alison Brie
Alison Brie Schermerhorn (born December 29, 1982) is an American actress. Her breakthrough came with the role of Trudy Campbell in the drama series ''Mad Men'' (2007–2015), which won her a Screen Actors Guild Award. She gained recognition fo ...
as Lucy Sherrington
*
Justin Chatwin
Justin Chatwin (born October 31, 1982) is a Canadian actor. He began his career in 2001 with a brief appearance in the musical comedy ''Josie and the Pussycats''. Following his breakthrough role as Robbie Ferrier in the blockbuster ''War of the ...
as Rydell Whyte
*
Colin Hanks
Colin Lewes Hanks (born November 24, 1977) is an American actor. He has starred in films including ''Orange County'', ''King Kong'', ''The House Bunny'', ''The Great Buck Howard'', and the ''Jumanji'' film series. His television credits include ' ...
as Clint Coburn
*
Dylan Everett
Dylan Phillip Everett (born January 24, 1995) is a Canadian actor. He is best known for his roles in ''How To Be Indie'' (2009–2011), ''Wingin' It'' (2010–2013), ''Degrassi'' (2012–2013), and '' Open Heart'' (2015).
Life and career
Evere ...
as Alex
*
Terry Jones
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After graduating from Oxford University with a degree in English, Jones and ...
as Howard
*
Aaron Poole
Aaron Poole (born March 17, 1977) is a Canadian actor.
Early life
Poole grew up in Barrie, Ontario and attended Barrie Central Collegiate. He is a graduate of the Etobicoke School of the Arts and George Brown College. He is of Italian descent.
...
as Jamie Whyte
*
Jayne Eastwood
Jayne Eastwood (born December 17, 1946), also credited as Jane Easton or Jane Eastwood, is a Canadian actress and comedian. She is best known for her film roles as Anna-Marie Biddlecoff in the comedy film ''Finders Keepers'' (1984), Judy the Wai ...
as Brenda
* Barry Flatman as Elliot Sherrington
*
Sabrina Grdevich
Sabrina Grdevich is a Canadian actress.
Sabrina portrayed Dana Ballard in the 1999 made-for-TV movie '' Ultimate Deception'' with Yasmine Bleeth. Her starring roles include ''Mile Zero'' and ''Lola''. Other roles included playing Cathy Blake in ...
as Nancy
*
Mark Forward
Mark Forward (born June 17, 1974) is a Canadian comedian and actor from Oakville, Ontario.
He is the winner of the 2005 Canadian Comedy Award for Best Stand-up Newcomer. He also won the Homegrown Competition at the 2006 Just for Laughs festiva ...
as Vernon Paulson
* Jonathan Potts as John Linnehan
*
Robin Brûlé
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as Verna Coburn
*
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as Sheriff Deputy
*
Lisa Berry
Lisa Berry (born November 6, 1979) is a Canadian actress, seen regularly on television with appearances in '' The Colony'', '' Northpole: Open for Christmas'', ''Combat Hospital'', '' Bad Blood'', '' Shadowhunters: The Mortal Instruments'', '' ...
as Fay
Production
In June 2013, it was announced
Alison Brie
Alison Brie Schermerhorn (born December 29, 1982) is an American actress. Her breakthrough came with the role of Trudy Campbell in the drama series ''Mad Men'' (2007–2015), which won her a Screen Actors Guild Award. She gained recognition fo ...
,
Justin Chatwin
Justin Chatwin (born October 31, 1982) is a Canadian actor. He began his career in 2001 with a brief appearance in the musical comedy ''Josie and the Pussycats''. Following his breakthrough role as Robbie Ferrier in the blockbuster ''War of the ...
and
Colin Hanks
Colin Lewes Hanks (born November 24, 1977) is an American actor. He has starred in films including ''Orange County'', ''King Kong'', ''The House Bunny'', ''The Great Buck Howard'', and the ''Jumanji'' film series. His television credits include ' ...
will star in the film, with Nick Wernham directing from a screenplay by Steve Adams. Paul Fler will serve as producer, while Fred Roos, Jeffrey Latimer, Richard Wernham and Simon Wernham will serve as executive producers under their Innis Lake Entertainment and Pangaea Pictures banners, respectively.
Principal photography
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Personnel
Besides the main film personnel, such as actor ...
began on May 27, 2013, in
Toronto
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, and concluded on July 5, 2013.
Release
The romantic comedy premiered at the
Newport Beach Film Festival
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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, the film was released in select theaters in
Canada
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, distributed by
Entertainment One
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. On the same day, it was also released in the
United States
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in a
limited release
__FORCETOC__
Limited theatrical release is a film distribution strategy of releasing a new film in a few theaters across a country, typically art house theaters in major metropolitan markets. Since 1994, a limited theatrical release in the Unite ...
and through
video on demand
Video on demand (VOD) is a media distribution system that allows users to access videos without a traditional video playback device and the constraints of a typical static broadcasting schedule. In the 20th century, broadcasting in the form of o ...
by
Orion Pictures
Orion Pictures (legal name Orion Releasing, LLC) is an American film production and distribution company owned by Amazon through its Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) subsidiary. In its original operating period, the company produced and released films ...
and
Momentum Pictures
Momentum Pictures is a film distributor and a subsidiary of Entertainment One, itself part of Hasbro. Prior to 2013, it was a brand of Canadian distributor Alliance Films used for its releases in the United Kingdom, and was one of the leading i ...
.
Critical response
On
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Rotten Tomatoes
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, the film holds an approval rating of 7% based on 14 reviews, with an average rating of 3.57/10. On
Metacritic
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, the film has a score of 29 out of 100, based on 8 critics. Leslie Felperin of ''
The Hollywood Reporter
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'' 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."
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