Tomris Laffly In “I Really Love My Husband,” GG Hawkins’ undercooked feature debut as a writer-director, Teresa (Madison Lanesey) tells others that she really loves her husband every chance that she gets.
But by saying it out loud, it often looks and sounds like she is first and foremost trying to convince herself that her love is the true kind.
Except, starting with the early scenes of this comedic drama that could have used both better humor and deeper dramatic stakes, there are various clues that she might not, in fact, be in love with Drew (Travis Quentin Young), an incurable people-pleaser who Teresa actually seems to be annoyed with too often. (Why else would she be on the phone on her wedding day with who appears to be her ex, exaggeratedly telling them about how much she loves her husband?) We get to know the standard dynamic between the questionably happy couple on a flight to their honeymoon in idyllic Bocas del Toro, Panamá, while Drew does everything in his power to be exhaustingly genial, while Teresa shows her comparably on-edge personality.
An in-flight episode about a fellow passenger’s near-fatal nut allergy briefly makes Teresa the suspect — is it her Keto bar that caused the crisis?
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