Movie

What Happens Later

2023 · 104 min

Two people circling each other in a hushed, snowbound terminal, trading old wounds and wry jabs until the waiting becomes tender.

Tagline: They missed their connection.
Overview: Two ex-lovers get snowed in at a regional airport overnight. Indefinitely delayed, Willa, a magical thinker, and Bill, a catastrophic one, find themselves just as attracted to and annoyed by one another as they did decades earlier. But as they unpack the riddle of their mutual past and compare their lives to the dreams they once shared, they begin to wonder if their reunion is mere coincidence, or something more enchanted.
How it feels: Romantic, melancholic, warm and whimsical. Slow-burning and needs your attention.
About: Love, memory, grief, parenthood
Content: Mild sexual content and language. No violence or gore.
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Tone: romanticstrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
warmstrength 2 of 3
whimsicalstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: love
memory
grief
parenthood
identity
Places: single country house
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: single location
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence none
Sex mild