This new British "romantic comedy" is actually more of an "anti-romantic comedy" that deconstructs the genre. Maeve Dermody plays an unlucky in love woman who is endlessly dumped by the men in her life. When Wilbur, the 11-year-old brother of her latest boyfriend gives her the bad news, she ends up befriending the smarter than his age, Wilbur, and together they discover the type D gene. Their relationship reminded me of the film" About A Boy".
The Type D gene is a genetic marker than makes certain people the "dumpees" in relationships. Tovah Feldshuh plays the scientist that discovers the gene and runs an institute to help people with the condition. Maeve must go back and reunite with all her past boyfriends who dumped her, only to dump them in order to become the "dumper" and "fix" her condition. Witten and directed by Sasha Collington, it's a quirky little comedy with an original concept that plays the genre against type.
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