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Mr Malcolm's List (2022)
When she fails to meet an item on his list of requirements for a bride, Julia Thistlewaite is jilted by London’s most eligible bachelor, Mr. Malcolm. Feeling humiliated and determined to exact revenge, she convinces her friend Selina Dalton to play the role of his ideal match. Soon, Mr. Malcolm wonders whether he’s found the perfect woman...or the perfect hoax.
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'Mr. Malcolm's List' Is A Lighter Version of 'Bridgerton'
In 1818 London, eligible bachelor and talk-of-the-town Mr. Jeremy Malcolm (Ṣọpẹ Dìrísù) is searching for a bride. Unlike the other men, he has a list of requirements. His high demands for a wife lead him to jilt Miss Julia Thistlewaite (Zawe Ashton), which he will come to regret. In a revenge plot to give Mr. Malcolm a taste of his own medicine, Julia recruits her friend Selina Dalton (Freida Pinto) to masquerade as Mr. Malcolm’s perfect bride, only to turn him down with her own list of requirements. Predictably, things go awry because love is, well, unpredictable.
Mr. Malcolm's List is a pleasant promenade through a fantasy Regency-era England filled with people of color. Mr. Malcolm's List checks off all requirements for a typical romantic British period piece: gorgeous dresses, lavish parties, heartfelt love confessions, and treacly romance. It also has the added element of completely colorblind casting comparable to Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella (1997). For fans of Bridgerton, this is pretty much the PG version of the show (though, Mr. Malcolm’s List doesn’t try to work in historical references to how their world used to be divided by color).
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When she fails to meet an item on his list of requirements for a bride, Julia Thistlewaite is jilted by London’s most eligible bachelor, Mr. Malcolm. Feeling humiliated and determined to exact revenge, she convinces her friend Selina Dalton to play the role of his ideal match. Soon, Mr. Malcolm wonders whether he’s found the perfect woman...or the perfect hoax.
Rating:PG
Genre:Romance, Comedy, Drama
Written By:Suzanne Allaine
In Theaters:7/1/2022
Box Office:
Runtime:117 minutes
Studio:Untitled Entertainment, Rebelle Media, Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland, Ingenious Media, Refinery29, Keeper Pictures
Cast
Emma Holly Jones
Director
Freida Pinto
Selina Dalton
Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù
Jeremy Malcolm
Zawe Ashton
Julia Thistlewaite
Oliver Jackson-Cohen
Lord Cassidy
Theo James
Captain Henry Ossory
Ashley Park
Gertie Covington
Danielle Ryan
Lady Margaret
Dawn Bradfield
Mrs. Dalton
Naoko Mori
Mrs. Thistlewaite
Gerry O'Brien
Mr. Woodbury
Sophie Vavasseur
Lady Gwyneth Amberton
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