Girl meets guy. Girl falls for guy. Guy might not be totally truthful with girl. So what does a modern woman do? Well, Sophie Brooks‘ “Oh, Hi!” might be the twisted answer to a very relatable dilemma.
Billed as a “subversive rom-com” to not give too much away, “Oh, Hi!” premiered at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. Molly Gordon and Logan Lerman star as Iris and Isaac, a couple whose first romantic getaway soon goes awry. The description teases that the “odd dark comedy takes on the highs and lows of modern dating and the ways it makes us all a little crazy.”
Geraldine Viswanathan and John Reynolds co-star. Brooks wrote and directed “Oh, Hi!,” with Gordon having a story by credit (she also produces). “Oh, Hi!” is screening at the 2025 Tribeca Festival June 13 and 14 before debuting in theaters this July.
Brooks, whose first film “The Boy Downstairs” starred Zosia Mamet as a woman who has to live above her ex-boyfriend in a new apartment, is no stranger to challenging the romance genre. Brooks told IndieWire that “Oh, Hi!” was inspired by “The Worst Person in the World,” “Normal People,” and the HBO adaptation of “Scenes from a Marriage” with Jessica Chastain and Oscar Isaac.
“It’s all about tone, right? It’s such a thin line,” Brooks said. “The film toes this really thin line of tone and perspective. It was really important to me that both characters felt like real people and fully rounded, realized versions of themselves. It’s super-vulnerable, it’s incredibly human to want love and to want to give love and be loved. Sometimes women, specifically, who say that are considered desperate or crazy, and I think that’s really unfair. Iris is a really brave character, and it’s a perfect storm of everything kind of landing in a way at the end of the first act where you’re like, ‘Oh, if those things hadn’t happened, she probably wouldn’t have done this crazy thing.’ I hope that people can relate to like, ‘Oh, I wouldn’t do this, but in a perfect storm, maybe I would.’ … The goal is to do it in a funny, lighthearted way that’s entertaining to people.”
She added, “Because, inherently, the movie’s about miscommunication and how these two people are not on the same page, that moment, the audience is seeing his perspective in a scene where it’s supposed to be about her.”
“Oh, Hi!” is produced by Brooks, Gordon, David Brooks, Dan Clifton, and Julie Waters.
Sony Pictures Classics will release “Oh, Hi!” in theaters on July 25. Check out the trailer below.00
