Lightweight rom-com when New York local sports reporter Mack falls for a fling without recognising that the real love of her life has been around her since childhood.
With best friends Adam (Damon Wayans Jnr) and Brannagan (Augustus Prew), Mack (Gina Rodriguez) has spent years devising ‘plays’ in picking up one night stands. But their golden rule of not building a relationship from a play is jeopardised when she falls for British war correspondent Nick (Tom Ellis). To those around her, the arrogant celebrity is overly controlling. But love is blind.
Players as directed by Trish Sie unexpectedly punches above its weight with its likeable characters and amiable if predictable storyline helped by its injection of offbeat comedy (a shout out to Joel Courtney as Brannagan’s younger brother, Little).
Rating: 54%
Director: Trish Sie (Pitch Perfect 3, Sitting in Bars With Cake)
Writer: Whit Anderson (TV’s Allegiance, Daredevil)
Main cast: Gina Rodriguez (Deepwater Horizon, Kajillionaire), Damon Wayans Jnr (Cherry, The Other Guys), Tom Ellis (Isn’t It Romantic, TV’s Lucifer)
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