REVIEW: ‘The Love Hypothesis’ signals the return of the rom-com
Addie Gerber | October 5Quirky, cute, funny and charming; all words that can be used to describe the movie adaptation of Ali Hazelwood’s book, “The Love Hypothesis.” The book and its film adaptation follow graduate student Olive Smith, played by Lili Reinhart, who begins fake dating a professor, Adam Carlsen, played by Tom Bateman, to trick her best friend into dating her crush. As far as the typical fake dating trope goes, Olive and Adam fall in love and develop a relationship with each other. The movie begins just before Olive’s graduate admissions interview at Stanford University. Olive is in the bathroom trying to wash her eyes out after wearing expired contact lenses, and while in the bathroom, Adam walks in and tells her to leave because it is his lab’s bathroom and not the women’s. When Olive explains her situation, she ends up getting a pep talk from Adam about her interview.
