Julia Hart Directing Feature Adaptation Of Lynn Painter’s Bestselling YA Rom-Com Novel ‘Better Than The Movies’ For Netflix

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has enlisted Julia Hart (I’m Your Woman) to direct a feature adaptation of Better Than the Movies, the bestselling YA com-com novel from Lynn Painter that’s celebrating its fifth anniversary.

A #1 New York Times bestseller, Better Than the Movies is a love letter to romantic comedies, in which senior Liz Buxbaum relies on her obsession with rom-com movies to get the attention of her untouchable crush, with an assist from her annoying but cute next-door neighbor. The book pays homage to all the romance tropes — fake relationship, enemies to lovers, boy next door — but throws them on their head for a new take on what happily ever after looks like.

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