What is this Xmas Movie? English poet poser edition.

December 23, 2024 3:55 PM

The plot is a lady English language professor meets a guy on a dating app and they start dating. Said date sends her text poetry but he is not the author - he asks his friend to write to poetry on his behalf. The actual poet is a co-worker of hers. Anyone know the name of this movie? It is reasonably recent.
posted by Saucywench to Writing & Language (5 answers total)

No idea of the particular title, but the plot is one of the many retreads of Cyrano de Bergerac. Maybe this list will help?

Of course, if it's not a remake and more of a loose interpretation or inspiration...I can't help (if I was any help at all to begin with!) Though that Wikipedia page does have a Derivative Versions section that contains loosely connected films.
posted by AbelMelveny at 5:19 PM on December 23, 2024 [6 favorites]

In that same vein, the tvtropes page for Playing Cyrano has lists of films, television etc. that make use of or subvert the trope.
posted by juv3nal at 1:06 AM on December 24, 2024 [1 favorite]

related: the recent the half of it is an utterly charming cyrano take.
posted by j_curiouser at 8:47 AM on December 24, 2024

ebert review ^^^
posted by j_curiouser at 8:53 AM on December 24, 2024

Response by poster: I found it! After going through about 50 pages of amazon Christmas movie listings, it turns out to be Christmas Cupid's Arrow. I have no idea why it would be named that.
posted by Saucywench at 12:28 PM on December 24, 2024