No Stranger Than Love

Lucy Sherrington (Alison Brie), a high school art teacher living in a small town, is romantically pursued by every male she knows including students and the high school principal. Lucy turns them down because she is contemplating having an affair with the married high school football coach, Clint Coburn (Colin Hanks). In order to reassure Lucy, who is having doubts about their relationship, Clint vows not to have sex with her until she tells him she loves him. Lucy reluctantly tells him she loves him, however immediately after a black hole opens in the floor of Lucy's living room sucking in Clint.

• Alison Brie as Lucy Sherrington
• Justin Chatwin as Rydell Whyte
• Colin Hanks as Clint Coburn
• Dylan Everett as Alex
• Terry Jones as Howard
• Aaron Poole as Jamie Whyte
• Jayne Eastwood as Brenda
• Barry Flatman as Elliot Sherrington
• Sabrina Grdevich as Nancy
• Mark Forward as Vernon Paulson
• Jonathan Potts as John Linnehan
• Robin Brûlé as Verna Coburn
• Martin Roach as Sheriff Deputy
• Lisa Berry as Fay

In June 2013, it was announced Alison Brie, Justin Chatwin and Colin Hanks will star in the film, with Nick Wernham directing from a screenplay by Steve Adams. Paul Fler will serve as producer, while Fred Roos, Jeffrey Latimer, Richard Wernham and Simon Wernham will serve as executive producers under their Innis Lake Entertainment and Pangaea Pictures banners, respectively.{{cite news|last1=McNary|first1=Dave|title=Alison Brie, Justin Chatwin, Colin Hanks In 'No Stranger Than Love' (EXCLUSIVE)|url=https://variety.com/2013/film/news/alison-brie-justin-chatwin-colin-hanks-in-no-stranger-than-love-exclusive-1200498213/|accessdate=June 26, 2015|work=Variety.com|date=June 18, 2013}}

Principal photography began on May 27, 2013, in Toronto,{{cite web|url=https://twitter.com/NSTLmovie/status/338988062862352385|title=NoStrangerThanLove on Twitter: "And so it begins. Day One."|website=Twitter|accessdate=November 21, 2020}} and concluded on July 5, 2013.{{cite web|url=https://twitter.com/NSTLmovie/status/353045548749692929|title=NoStrangerThanLove on Twitter: "That's a wrap! Couldn't ask for a better cast and crew. Thank you to everyone who made this all possible."|website=Twitter|accessdate=November 21, 2020}}

The romantic comedy premiered at the Newport Beach Film Festival on April 30, 2015, as the closing night film.{{cite news|title='No Stranger Than Love' to close film festival|url=http://www.latimes.com/tn-dpt-et-0430-no-stranger-than-love-newport-beach-film-festival-20150429-story.html|accessdate=September 18, 2016|work=Los Angeles Times|date=April 29, 2015}} It was also the closing night film at Skyway Film Festival on June 14.{{cite news|title=Exclusive: Skyway Film Festival Announces 'Walt Before Mickey' and 'No Stranger Than Love' as Opening and Closing Night Films|url=http://www.indiewire.com/2015/05/exclusive-skyway-film-festival-announces-walt-before-mickey-and-no-stranger-than-love-as-opening-and-closing-night-films-62169/|accessdate=September 18, 2016|work=Indiewire.com|date=May 11, 2015}} On June 17, 2016, the film was released in select theaters in Canada, distributed by Entertainment One. On the same day, it was also released in the United States in a limited release and through video on demand by Orion Pictures and Momentum Pictures.{{cite magazine|url=https://ew.com/article/2016/06/06/alison-brie-no-stranger-than-love-exclusive-clip/|title=Alison Brie, Colin Hanks in No Stranger Than Love exclusive clip|magazine=Entertainment Weekly|first=Ariana|last=Bacle|date=June 6, 2016|accessdate=November 21, 2020}}

On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 7% based on 14 reviews, with an average rating of 3.57/10.{{cite web|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/no_stranger_than_love|title=No Stranger Than Love (2016)|publisher=|accessdate=18 May 2020|via=www.rottentomatoes.com}} On Metacritic, the film has a score of 29 out of 100, based on 8 critics.{{cite web |url=http://www.metacritic.com/movie/no-stranger-than-love |title=No Stranger Than Love reviews |website=Metacritic |accessdate=September 19, 2016}} Leslie Felperin of The Hollywood Reporter gave the film a negative review writing: "It’s not a problem there’s a hole, as it were, in the common-sense logic of the film’s world; it’s that there’s a big, gaping hole where the illogic should be, a whole lot of nothing where there should be metaphor, playfulness, all that juicy, enigmatic, magical-realism stuff that helps films like Being John Malkovich and its many knockoffs become fodder for film-studies essays."{{cite web |url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/no-stranger-love-newport-beach-793225 |title='No Stranger Than Love': Newport Beach Review |work=The Hollywood Reporter.com |date=4 May 2015 |accessdate=September 19, 2016}}

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