Plus One

Plus One (2019) is a romantic comedy you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Jeff Chan and Andrew Rhymer. Ben (Jack Quaid) and Alice (Maya Erskine) are close friends staring down a summer with ten wedding invitations between them and no one to bring. The practical solution: go together, split the awkwardness, eat the cake, and keep it uncomplicated.

It goes about as smoothly as you'd expect. By the fourth or fifth wedding, the line between performing a couple and actually being one gets uncomfortably blurry. What makes the film work is that Quaid and Erskine generate genuine on-screen friction — they argue like people who know each other too well, not like leads waiting for their cue to kiss. The script, also by Chan and Rhymer, is sharp enough to give both characters real reasons to resist the obvious conclusion.

At 99 minutes, Plus One respects its own premise enough not to stretch it thin. The tagline promises ten weddings and one summer — the film delivers both, plus a third act that earns its sentiment. Stream Plus One (2019) online on iFILM.