What Happens Later

What Happens Later

Two ex-lovers, Bill and Willa, 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.

  • Released:
  • Runtime: 105 minutes
  • Genre: Comedy, Romance
  • Stars: David Duchovny, Meg Ryan
  • Director: Meg Ryan
 Comments
  • olgavkoshkina - 29 June 2024
    Clever, witty, nostalgic and charming
    I started to read reviews, but then stopped. We are all "on journey" or "destination" - it defines us, our mindset and capacitance to feel what those two actors created for us. I thought I loved almost everything - I was taken deeply into this dialog, enjoyed dynamics of play in each dimension was chosen. Beautiful movie, which I felt was like a theatre - absolutely flawless acting by both and tolerable annoyance for some music and loudness were chosen at some moments, when dialogs were convoluted with it. If anything is needed, it is more movies like this, it's time to bring back the true actors capacitance to built beautiful moments at stage and take all of us to this journey.
  • wincardium - 27 March 2024
    If You're Expecting When Harry Met Sally This Ain't It
    I honestly don't get all the hate on here for this film. But I shouldn't be surprised. There's mostly just hate and vitriol on IMDB.com these days. People mostly hate what they don't understand and/or fear. And as I skimmed through the reviews, it is clear that people were expecting a typical Meg Ryan-like ROMCOM.

    Here's a newsflash, folks: this ain't that kinda movie.

    Hard to categorize it. Funny in some places, dramatic in others and deeply poignant in others as well.

    I LOVED it. Sure, it took some getting used to. Takes place in an airport for the entire film. Runs two hours. Just the two actors and random passerbys. Lots and lots of dialogue. And just talking.

    Two former lovers, now divorced some years, happen to run into each other at an airport. Terrible weather ensues and they end up having to stay at the airport until the weather clears and they can get rebooked and be on their respective merry ways.

    In that time, they share what they both think went wrong in their marriage, and who they are at this place in their lives. Older for sure, and a bit wiser. A little bit more self-aware.

    Quirky for sure. VERY different, and in a good way. I LOVED the PA announcer. I loved watching Meg Ryan and David Duchovny dance to this sweet song, "Pure" by The Lightning Seeds. It's one of those slow, onion-peeling-back kind of movies, that reveals itself gradually and slowly. Very human and very grown up. Definitely more substantive than the typical shallow stuff Ryan has done before. Some times you do have to just try. And while we will never know for sure, I would like to think Nora Ephron, who the film was dedicated to, would have approved.