Upon waking, Zach mistakes Zoey Miller for his actual girlfriend—who also happens to be named Zoey. Fearing that correcting him will cause medical stress, the hospital staff and Zach’s family encourage her to play along. The deception deepens when Zoey meets Zach's cousin Miles (Archie Renaux), a fellow intellectual who shares her interests and worldview, leading to a complicated web of feelings and lies.
A romantic comedy lives or dies by the charisma of its leads. The Other Zoey strikes gold with its casting, particularly in the rising star power of its ensemble. The Other Zoey
The story follows Zoey Miller (Josephine Langford), a brilliant but cynical computer science major who believes romantic love is a "capitalist strategy" that can be solved through algorithms. Her rigid worldview is challenged when Zach (Drew Starkey), a popular college soccer star, suffers a concussion and develops amnesia after she attempts to return his lost credit card. Upon waking, Zach mistakes Zoey Miller for his
In an age of dating apps, where we swipe left or right based on superficial data points, The Other Zoey feels remarkably timely. The film asks: Are we reducing love to a transaction? Zoey’s algorithm is a stand-in for every person who has ever made a pros-and-cons list for a partner. A romantic comedy lives or dies by the charisma of its leads
Zoey Miller (played by Josephine Langford) is a fiercely intelligent computer science student at Hillside University. She is pragmatic, logical, and dismissive of the chaotic nature of romance. To her, love is a variable that can be calculated, and she is developing an algorithm to predict compatibility. She is the "anti-romantic"—a popular archetype in the genre, yet Langford brings a specific kind of adorkable stubbornness to the role that feels fresh.