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'I Propose We Never See Each Other Again After Tonight' is a 2020 Canadian romantic comedy film directed by Sean Garrity.[Randall King, "Rom-com done right: Winnipeg actress radiates big-time charm in Garrity's latest big-screen project". 'Winnipeg Free Press', August 22, 2020.] The film stars Kristian Jordan and Hera Nalam as Simon Friesen and Iris Dela Cruz, a man and woman in Winnipeg who meet when they both stop to help push a car out of the snow, and become a couple over the course of the film despite their initial lack of interest in each other.[Barry Hertz, "I Propose That We Never See Each Other Again After Tonight wants to make Winnipeg Canada's rom-com capital: A late narrative turn holds back a film that comes so close to achieving its goal of complete audience seduction and surrender". 'The Globe and Mail', September 2, 2020.]
Garrity chose to write the two central characters as a Mennonite and a Filipino Canadian, as both communities are prominent within Winnipeg but rarely represented in film.[Randall King, "Culture clash: Winnipeg filmmaker mixes city's Filipino and Mennonite communities together for romantic comedy". 'Winnipeg Free Press', March 14, 2020.]
The film had been slated to premiere in March 2020,[ but was disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada.][Hal Anderson, "New movie to debut; Winnipeg filmmaker can finally show latest flick". 'Winnipeg Sun', August 15, 2020.] Its premiere was rescheduled to August; Garrity contrasted its adjusted release strategy against the concurrent Christopher Nolan film 'Tenet', noting that the social distancing strategies still in place at movie theatres would complicate the release of a Hollywood film but were not all that different from the much smaller audiences that turn out for Canadian independent films even in normal times.[Randall King, "Pandemic upends best laid plans for film: Local rom-com finally screening in two Winnipeg theatres after months of delay". 'Winnipeg Free Press', August 21, 2020.]
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