Gabrielle Union finds her groove in the age-gap romance 'The Perfect Find'

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“The Perfect Find” falls well short of perfection, but it’s the kind of low-key romance that often finds an appreciative audience on Netflix. Gabrielle Union plays the newly single woman who falls for a much-younger man, in a movie that emphasizes chemistry over eroticism, landing somewhere between Hallmark movie and Harlequin romance.

Union’s Jenna has just split from her longtime boyfriend , very publicly losing her job in the process. Anxious about her career, she goes hat in hand to a former friend/rival, Darcy , who after some hazing hires Jenna to join her vaguely defined fashion enterprise, which mostly seems like an excuse for everyone to wear fabulous outfits.Jenna goes to a party and instantly clicks with Eric , a recent film-school grad who, as luck would have it, also happens to be Darcy’s son.

The older woman/younger man dynamic is certainly a well-worn concept, with “How Stella Got Her Groove Back” – a familiar antecedent for this sort of exercise – bearing down on its 25th anniversary , and “Magic Mike’s Last Dance” representing a more recent, steamier variant. The best elements actually have relatively little to do with the central plot, as the movie makes particularly good use of older songs, like “Chain of Fools” and “You Got It All,” to breezily advance the story and capitalizing on the central duo’s shared love of old movies – a shorthand means of showing they’re meant for each other, the years be damned.

 

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