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Warning: This post contains spoilers for the book and movie versions of People We Meet on Vacation
Best-selling author Emily Henry didn’t set out to write an homage to When Harry Met Sally with her 2021 novel, People We Meet on Vacation. But, like Nora Ephron and director Rob Reiner, she wanted to explore the concept of whether men and women could really ever just be friends. Now, thanks to Netflix, Henry’s accidental tribute to her favorite rom-com is getting the movie treatment.
Like the book, the adaptation of People We Meet on Vacation, streaming now, follows besties, free-spirited travel writer Poppy Wright (Emily Bader) and sweet, but high-strung teacher Alex Nilsen (The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes’ Tom Blyth), across 12 years of vacations.
After becoming unlikely friends in college, the two make a pact to spend one-week every summer trekking around the world together as totally platonic travel companions. The movie hops around in time, flashing back to Alex and Poppy’s past trips, but picks up in the present day. Alex and Poppy haven’t spoken in two years, after things got a little weird during their visit to Tuscany on their last trip. Determined to reunite with Alex, Poppy books a last-minute trip to Barcelona so she can attend his little brother’s wedding. Her hope is that she’ll be able to convince Alex to give their friendship another try.
Like any book-to-movie adaptation, some changes have been made in order to make it work for the not-so-big screen. Here are the ways that the film adaptation of People We Meet on Vacation differs from the book.
Alex and Poppy don’t go on as many vacations
The book, which is told from Poppy’s point of view, looks back at 10 summers that she and Alex spent together. No surprise, the movie had to nix a few locales—sorry, Nashville and Vail, Colorado—and therefore combine a few major plot points to keep this from becoming a four hour movie. (Though, perhaps like me, you may find…
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