Fuck The Honeymoon
2021 · 12m · United Kingdom
Directed by Joshua Thornton-Allan
Single and fed up with dating, Lizzie skips the small talk entirely: her idea of a first date is couples counselling. The unorthodox arrangement forces both parties to confront their flaws in a sharp comedy about modern romance.
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Finally, someone who gets that the entire apparatus of romantic courtship is theater we should burn down—and *Fuck The Honeymoon* does it by weaponizing couples therapy into foreplay, which is the kind of premise that makes you retroactively furious you didn't think of it first.
Thornton-Allan's comedy sits in conversation with the Judd Apatow lineage of character-driven romance, though the structural audacity—pivoting toward vulnerability through professional mediation rather than grand gestures—marks a deliberate departure from that tradition's emotional beats.
The film's entire charge lives in that single scheduling choice: the decision to make a first date *therapy* rather than coffee reframes every awkward moment as productive confession, and it's the kind of formal conceit that justifies the whole 12 minutes with surgical efficiency.