Backlot members are watching Voicemails for Isabelle this month. It has an 88 percent on Rotten Tomatoes. It is on Netflix if you have not seen it yet.
Jill leaves voicemails for her dead sister, Isabelle, not knowing the number has been reassigned. Wes, a stranger in Austin, receives them. He listens. He falls for her without her knowing it. That is the whole thing. The film works because it knows grief is funny and embarrassing, not just sad. Zoey Deutch and Nick Robinson are very good together.
If you liked Scrambled, this is the same writer and director, Leah McKendrick. She plays a character in it too.
Before this: Scrambled. McKendrick's 2023 debut. Different story, same sensibility.
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