Everything We Know About Netflix’s Better Than The Movies

It’s been a big year for Lynn Painter and her readers (this one included). I was sitting down and getting ready to work on a review when I got a text message that Netflix announced the more casting for Better Than The Movies. If you are a reader of Lynn’s books you know it is a passionate fandom and we have been very vocal about casting.

So, sitting back and waiting for information on casting, as well as has been torturous.

We’ve got a great cast here peeps.

We LOVE a good coming of age story and this book definitely delivers on that and our favorite tropes.

Here’s everything we know –

SYNOPSIS

The adaptation of Better Than The Movies is based on Lynn Painters book of the same name.

In this love letter to romantic comedies, senior Liz Buxbaum’s obsession with rom-com movies proves helpful when she schemes with her annoying but cute neighbor to get the attention of her untouchable crush, paying homage to all the romance tropes—fake relationship, enemies to lovers, boy next door—along the way.

BOOK SYNOPSIS

Perpetual daydreamer Liz Buxbaum gave her heart to Michael a long time ago. But her cool, aloof forever crush never really saw her before he moved away. Now that he’s back in town, Liz will do whatever it takes to get on his radar – and maybe snag him as a prom date – even befriend Wes Bennet.

The annoyingly attractive next-door neighbor might seem like a prime candidate for romantic-comedy fantasies, but Wes has only been a pain in Liz’s butt since they were kids. Pranks involving frogs and decapitated lawn gnomes do not a potential boyfriend make. Yet, somehow, Wes and Michael are hitting it off, which means Wes is Liz’s in.

But as Liz and Wes scheme to get Liz noticed by Michael so she can have her magical prom moment, she’s shocked to discover that she likes being around Wes. And as they continue to grow closer, she must reexamine everything she thought she knew about love – and rethink her own ideas of what happily ever after should look like.