Old School. Biblically Independent.
By Dustin Rowles | Film | November 25, 2025
In Oh Hi (currently streaming on Netflix), Molly Gordon and Logan Lerman play Iris and Isaac, a “couple” who have been dating for four months and go away for a romantic weekend stay in an Airbnb. They buy strawberries at a farm stand. They have sex. They make dinner. They have sex again, only this time Iris playfully chains Isaac to a bed with a pair of handcuffs and chains they find in the closet.
Everything is going great until afterward, when Isaac confesses that he doesn’t think of them as a “couple,” that he’s not looking for a serious relationship, and that he’s been seeing other people. This news doesn’t sit well with Iris, who is so mad and frustrated that she refuses to remove the handcuffs and leg restraints and walks out in a huff. She spends the evening fuming and doing way too much research on the Internet, and surmises that if she can just keep him chained up for 12 hours, she can convince him that they should be a couple.
At some point, however, Iris realizes that her fit of frustration has inadvertently evolved into kidnapping, so she calls her best friend, Max (Geraldine Viswanathan), who brings along her boyfriend, Kenny (John Reynolds). They come over to offer aid, only to realize that they’ve basically become conspirators.
And that’s the setup. And also the corner that writer/director Sophie Brooks writes herself into. There’s no real way to get out of the predicament Iris has created without a deus ex machina or, worse, Isaac actually falling in love with the woman who chained him to a bed.
I won’t spoil it, except to say that Brooks lands the plane without completely crashing it, but the plot is mostly an afterthought here anyway. It’s a romantic comedy. Sort of. Except it’s not particularly romantic. And the comedy is more of an indie vibe. It’s a pleasant movie with pleasant performances that doesn’t fully take advantage of the premise or the comedic talents of the cast (particularly Viswanathan and Reynolds, who are very good in other things).
It’s fine+, which is appropriate for an inexpensively produced film that premiered earlier this year before a limited release from Sony Pictures Classics. It’s more charming than funny, there’s some decent chemistry between Lerman and Gordon, and it’s very watchable, even if it ultimately doesn’t really go anywhere or say anything new.
