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It stars Creator/LiliReinhart as Natalie, a college senior who takes a pregnancy test after sleeping with her friend Gabe (Creator/DannyRamirez). Two parallel realities diverge from the result of this pregnancy test -- in one, Natalie moves to Los Angeles to begin her career as an artist, and in another, she and Gabe try to coparent their daughter Rosie. The film [[SplitTimelinesPlot cuts back and forth between these two outcomes]] over the next five years to see how Natalie develops.
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It stars Creator/LiliReinhart as Natalie, a college senior from Austin, Texas who takes a pregnancy test after sleeping with her friend Gabe (Creator/DannyRamirez). Two parallel realities diverge from the result of this pregnancy test -- in one, one where it's negative, Natalie moves to Los Angeles to begin her career as an artist, artist; and in another, another where it's positive, she and Gabe try to coparent their daughter Rosie.Rosie in Austin. The film [[SplitTimelinesPlot cuts back and forth between these two outcomes]] over the next five years to see how Natalie develops.
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* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: The Los Angeles reality is denoted with pink and yellow costume and set design; the Austin reality with grays, greens, and blues.
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* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: The Los Angeles reality is denoted with pink pink, orange and yellow costume and set design; the Austin reality with grays, greens, and blues.blues. If Natalie from the LA reality visits Austin, her warm wardrobe stands out among the cool colors; similarly, when Natalie from the Austin reality visits LA, she wears cool colors among the warm set design.
* GrayRainOfDepression: After Gabe tells Natalie that he's proposed to his girlfriend, she drives their daughter to her parents' in a downpour. The same downpour in the Los Angeles reality occurs after Natalie [[spoiler:is fired and has broken up with Jake]].
* HandsOnApproach: Gabe demonstrates drumming to Natalie by standing behind her so his chest is pressed to her back and taking her hands to drum. The two kiss afterwards.
* HandsOnApproach: Gabe demonstrates drumming to Natalie by standing behind her so his chest is pressed to her back and taking her hands to drum. The two kiss afterwards.
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** In both realities, Natalie is accepted into the South by Southwest film festival.
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** Austin Natalie visits Los Angeles and bumps into Jake, Los Angeles Natalie's boyfriend.
** In both realities, Natalie is accepted into the South by Southwest film festival. Austin Natalie even gets to be on a panel with Los Angeles Natalie's boss, Lucy. Los Angeles Natalie meets with her now-married old friend/fling Gabe and admits the pregnancy scare to him.
** In both realities, Natalie is accepted into the South by Southwest film festival. Austin Natalie even gets to be on a panel with Los Angeles Natalie's boss, Lucy. Los Angeles Natalie meets with her now-married old friend/fling Gabe and admits the pregnancy scare to him.
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* LiveActionAdaptation: Discussed by Natalie and Jake. Natalie thinks that live-action remakes of animations are an affront to the art form, while Jake thinks there is value in retelling a story a different way.
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* PlatonicCoParenting: In one reality, Gabe and Natalie are friends who hook up. Natalie gets pregnant from their tryst so the two platonically coparent before eventually getting together.
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* ShoutOut: Natalie is an animation nerd and cites ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManIntoTheSpiderVerse'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Paperman}}'', ''WesternAnimation/WatershipDown'', ''Anime/AWhiskerAway'', and ''Anime/SpiritedAway'' among other works.
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* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: The film follows two worlds: one where Natalie isn't pregnant, and the other one where she is and keeps the baby. Abortion is never brought up as an option in the latter reality.
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* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: The Los Angeles reality is denoted with pink and yellow costume and set design; the Austin reality with grays, greens, and blues.
* ADegreeInUseless: Natalie's parents are aghast that Gabe is a history major because it's not a degree that will support his baby with Natalie.
* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: The film follows two worlds: one where Natalie isn'tpregnant, pregnant on the night of her graduation, and the other one where she is and keeps the baby. Abortion is never brought up as an option in is. In the latter reality.reality, she briefly considers abortion but decides to keep the baby because she feels she was meant to do so.
* ADegreeInUseless: Natalie's parents are aghast that Gabe is a history major because it's not a degree that will support his baby with Natalie.
* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: The film follows two worlds: one where Natalie isn't
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* HappilyMarried: Natalie's parents are very happy together and are initially upset when their pregnant daughter moves in with them because it ruins their amorous, freewheeling empty nester lifestyle.
* HonorableMarriageProposal: Modern version. In the reality where he gets her pregnant, Gabe proposes to Natalie to make their coparenting easier. Her parents interrupt, and she tells him that she would prefer him to marry someone he is in love with.
* HonorableMarriageProposal: Modern version. In the reality where he gets her pregnant, Gabe proposes to Natalie to make their coparenting easier. Her parents interrupt, and she tells him that she would prefer him to marry someone he is in love with.
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* PaintedCGI: Discussed when aspiring artist Natalie applies for an assistant job at an animation studio. She mentions that she studied both 2D and 3D animation to help her chances at employment. Though her dream is to become an illustrator, she notes that working with 3D isn't devoid of that and cites ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManIntoTheSpiderverse'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Paperman}}'' as examples.
* PregnancyScare: The plots diverge based on Natalie feeling unwell and taking a pregnancy test after her hookup with Gabe. In the Austin reality, she's actually pregnant, but in the Los Angeles reality it was because of food poisoning.
* PregnancyScare: The plots diverge based on Natalie feeling unwell and taking a pregnancy test after her hookup with Gabe. In the Austin reality, she's actually pregnant, but in the Los Angeles reality it was because of food poisoning.
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->''"It's not just one moment that defines your life."''
''Look Both Ways'' is an American RomanticComedy directed by Creator/WanuriKahiu and written by April Prosser for Creator/{{Netflix}}.
It stars Creator/LiliReinhart as Natalie, a college senior who takes a pregnancy test after sleeping with her friend Gabe (Creator/DannyRamirez). Two parallel realities diverge from the result of this pregnancy test -- in one, Natalie moves to Los Angeles to begin her career as an artist, and in another, she and Gabe try to coparent their daughter Rosie. The film [[SplitTimelinesPlot cuts back and forth between these two outcomes]] over the next five years to see how Natalie develops.
The film also stars Creator/DavidCorenswet as LA-based love interest Jake, Creator/NiaLong as her boss Lucy, Creator/AishaDee as Natalie's best friend Cara, and Creator/LukeWilson and Creator/AndreaSavage as Natalie's parents. The film premiered on August 17, 2022.
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!!Tropes:
* ButWeUsedACondom: After Natalie reveals that Gabe knocked her up, both of them note that they used protection.
* CareerVersusFamily: The central conceit: Natalie either moves to Los Angeles to start her creative career, or move back in with her parents in Austin after she falls pregnant. [[spoiler:She makes strides towards both in both realities, and the movie suggests that women can in fact have it all.]]
* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: The film follows two worlds: one where Natalie isn't pregnant, and the other one where she is and keeps the baby. Abortion is never brought up as an option in the latter reality.
* GrandRomanticGesture: In the Los Angeles reality, [[spoiler:Jake flies back from Nova Scotia for Natalie's short film premiere, and the two lovers are happily reunited]].
* InSpiteOfANail: Two drastically different plots happen as a result of Natalie's pregnancy test, however...
** In both realities, Natalie is accepted into the South by Southwest film festival.
** At the end of the film, [[spoiler:both Natalies walk past her old sorority house, where she reassures herself that it worked out for the best]].
* JuxtaposedReflectionPoster: The film's two parallel worlds diverge from whether or not Natalie gets pregnant after sex with Gabe. The poster shows Natalie's "two lives" — one advancing her creative career, the other a pregnant soon-to-be-mom: posed similarly and aligned on promotional material.
* LongDistanceRelationship: In the LA reality, [[spoiler:Jake and Natalie's suffers a setback after he moves to Nova Scotia for a producing job and they struggle to make long distance work]].
* MoodLighting: The "young creative" Los Angeles plot is lit in warm reds and yellows; the "young mom" Austin plot in cool blues and greens.
* SplitTimelinesPlot: The film follows two different worlds -- one where Natalie's pregnancy test is positive, and another where it's negative.
* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: In the Austin reality, an exhausted Natalie confides in Gabe that she feels that motherhood has emptied her as a person. Gabe tells her that she is accomplishing so much already.
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->''"It's not just one moment that defines your life."''
''Look Both Ways'' is an American RomanticComedy directed by Creator/WanuriKahiu and written by April Prosser for Creator/{{Netflix}}.
It stars Creator/LiliReinhart as Natalie, a college senior who takes a pregnancy test after sleeping with her friend Gabe (Creator/DannyRamirez). Two parallel realities diverge from the result of this pregnancy test -- in one, Natalie moves to Los Angeles to begin her career as an artist, and in another, she and Gabe try to coparent their daughter Rosie. The film [[SplitTimelinesPlot cuts back and forth between these two outcomes]] over the next five years to see how Natalie develops.
The film also stars Creator/DavidCorenswet as LA-based love interest Jake, Creator/NiaLong as her boss Lucy, Creator/AishaDee as Natalie's best friend Cara, and Creator/LukeWilson and Creator/AndreaSavage as Natalie's parents. The film premiered on August 17, 2022.
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!!Tropes:
* ButWeUsedACondom: After Natalie reveals that Gabe knocked her up, both of them note that they used protection.
* CareerVersusFamily: The central conceit: Natalie either moves to Los Angeles to start her creative career, or move back in with her parents in Austin after she falls pregnant. [[spoiler:She makes strides towards both in both realities, and the movie suggests that women can in fact have it all.]]
* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: The film follows two worlds: one where Natalie isn't pregnant, and the other one where she is and keeps the baby. Abortion is never brought up as an option in the latter reality.
* GrandRomanticGesture: In the Los Angeles reality, [[spoiler:Jake flies back from Nova Scotia for Natalie's short film premiere, and the two lovers are happily reunited]].
* InSpiteOfANail: Two drastically different plots happen as a result of Natalie's pregnancy test, however...
** In both realities, Natalie is accepted into the South by Southwest film festival.
** At the end of the film, [[spoiler:both Natalies walk past her old sorority house, where she reassures herself that it worked out for the best]].
* JuxtaposedReflectionPoster: The film's two parallel worlds diverge from whether or not Natalie gets pregnant after sex with Gabe. The poster shows Natalie's "two lives" — one advancing her creative career, the other a pregnant soon-to-be-mom: posed similarly and aligned on promotional material.
* LongDistanceRelationship: In the LA reality, [[spoiler:Jake and Natalie's suffers a setback after he moves to Nova Scotia for a producing job and they struggle to make long distance work]].
* MoodLighting: The "young creative" Los Angeles plot is lit in warm reds and yellows; the "young mom" Austin plot in cool blues and greens.
* SplitTimelinesPlot: The film follows two different worlds -- one where Natalie's pregnancy test is positive, and another where it's negative.
* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: In the Austin reality, an exhausted Natalie confides in Gabe that she feels that motherhood has emptied her as a person. Gabe tells her that she is accomplishing so much already.
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