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My Fake Boyfriend

2022 · 100 min

A breezy, feel-good romantic comedy with social media antics and a warm heart.

Directed by
Rose Troche
Genres
Comedy, Romance
Starring
Keiynan Lonsdale, Dylan Sprouse, Samer Salem
Tagline
Real love is hard to find.
Overview
A young man in a tricky situation follows the advice of his unconventional best friend and uses social media to create a fake boyfriend to keep his awful ex-lover out of his life. But everything backfires when he meets the real love of his life, and breaking up with his fake boyfriend proves hard to do.

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Stream in the UK
  • Amazon Prime Video
More options Data from JustWatch
Directed by
Rose Troche
Genres
Comedy, Romance
Starring
Keiynan Lonsdale, Dylan Sprouse, Samer Salem
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How it feels

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Tone
  • lightstrength 2 of 3
  • romanticstrength 2 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 1 of 3
  • warmstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
brisk, 3 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • love
  • identity
  • friendship
  • deception
  • media
Places
  • big city
Era
contemporary
Audience
teen
Form
  • twist ending
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror0
Humour6
Realism7
Romance7
Tension3
Darkness2
Complexity3
Emotional weight4

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Stream
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Details

Genres
comedy, romance
Directed by
Rose Troche
Written by
Joe Wanjai Ross, Luke Albright
Starring
Keiynan Lonsdale, Dylan Sprouse, Samer Salem, Marcus Rosner, Karen Robinson, Sarah Hyland, Rachel Risen, Dean McDermott
Cinematography
Stephen Chandler Whitehead
Runtime
100 min
Country
Canada
Languages
English

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