5.4
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
Things Like This (2025)
Things Like This (2025)
Overview
Struggling writer Zack Anthony meets Zack Mandel, an assistant to a talent agent. Their connection begins with a small act of kindness and soon grows after a disastrous but comedic first date. As they spend more time together, they uncover a surprising shared past that feels like fate. Despite personal challenges and misunderstandings, their bond deepens as they navigate what could be the start of something special.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Rating & Dimensions
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Progressive
Political: Leans Left
Diversity: High
LGBTQ: Positive
Viewer Rating
5.4
Overview
Struggling writer Zack Anthony meets Zack Mandel, an assistant to a talent agent. Their connection begins with a small act of kindness and soon grows after a disastrous but comedic first date. As they spend more time together, they uncover a surprising shared past that feels like fate. Despite personal challenges and misunderstandings, their bond deepens as they navigate what could be the start of something special.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Progressive
Primary
The film's central focus on authentic queer representation within the romantic comedy genre and its exploration of self-acceptance for queer characters aligns with progressive values, advocating for greater visibility and normalization of LGBTQ+ experiences.
This movie demonstrates significant DEI by explicitly centering queer male characters and relationships within a romantic comedy framework. The filmmaker, an openly queer man, intentionally created the film to address underrepresentation and re-frame traditional rom-com tropes through a queer lens, making queer experiences central to the narrative.
Secondary
Things Like This is an explicitly queer romantic comedy centered on two men falling in love, intentionally designed by its director to 'queer the rom-com' genre. It aims for an authentic, everyday portrayal of queer life, resisting predictable tropes and depicting characters with dignity and complexity. While some critics noted a problematic body-shaming moment, the film's overall impact is overwhelmingly affirming, focusing on growth and ordinary relationship issues through a queer lens.
The film 'Things Like This' is described as a gay romantic comedy focusing on two male leads and queer rom-com tropes through a gay male lens. There is no information available to suggest the presence of transsexual characters or related themes within the narrative. Therefore, the film has no depiction of transsexual characters or themes.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
The film is an original romantic comedy with all new, fictional characters. There is no prior source material or historical record to establish canonical genders, thus precluding any gender swaps.
Things Like This (2025) is an original film, not an adaptation of existing source material or a historical biopic. All characters are new creations for this specific production, meaning there is no prior established race for any character to be compared against for a race swap.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
4.6
6.2
Critic Ratings
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