What to Watch the Week of October 6: Laura Dern and Liam Hemsworth Star in Netflix's Romantic Drama 'Lonely Planet'
glamour.comand Kristen Bell comes another Netflix romantic onscreen pairing worth watching: Laura Dern and Liam Hemsworth . The unlikely—but very, very hot—duo star in this seductive romantic drama from writer-director Susannah Grant (Erin Brockovich).
It’s about a newly single novelist (Dern) who travels to an exclusive writer’s retreat in Morocco in hopes of curing her writer’s block.
On the retreat she meets Owen Brophy (Hemsworth), and he changes her life in ways she never could have expected.Grant that she wanted to make a film about the transformational power of travel (yes, please) and “how sometimes journeying thousands of miles away from everything you know about your life can make you see it, and yourself, in a revealing new light.” Aside from Dern and Hemsworth heating up the screen, you’ll be drawn to the gorgeous locale in North Africa, which should serve as inspiration for .Laura Dern as Katherine Loewe and Liam Hemsworth as Owen Brophy in Lonely PlanetAlso this week: Jason Reitman’s retelling of Saturday Night Live’s very first show, with an all-star cast that includes Lamorne Morris, Cory Michael Smith, Ella Hunt, Finn Wolfhard, Kaia Gerber, J.K.
Simmons, Matthew Rhys, Willem Dafoe, and many more. Reviews have been mixed—the “more fun than the current SNL” while the “thinly sketched, but satisfying”—and I haven’t seen it yet, but it’s the kind of movie you most likely can’t go wrong with if you’re looking for a night out.In terms of new TV premieres this week, Abbott Elementary returns for its fourth season.
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