Love, Lies & Linguine

Feature Film

This story was inspired while writer/director Rodrigo Torres Badoino was attending a wedding. This was coincidentally how James Corden came up with the idea for the show “Gavin & Stacey” too, which we take comparison audience appeal from.

And then drawing from the relationship based “emotional trainwreck” reality TV show “Married at First Sight” (MAFS).

Lead Characters Concept Images

Logline

On the menu tonight will be secrets, jealousy, sex, drugs, violence & bad Italian accents. The chaos will be served flaming hot!

A “Married at First Sight” inspired anti rom-com for a new generation.

Synopsis

A character driven story for the ages on love, life and friendships as two couples navigate the perils of wedding plans, the responsibility of social media fame and testing the boundaries of friendship, while “enjoying” dinner at their favourite Italian restaurant.

The dinner, takes place just a week before the wedding, where façades crumble, revealing the underlying tensions and secrets of our characters as our bride drops her maid of honour at the last minute.

A witty observation of life challenges that most of us face and connect us all. But focusing on the next generations’ couples experience with relationship dynamics and friendship drama that will test loyalties and expose some hard truths.

Our subplot themes will interweave and comment on societal expectations and questionable behaviour in cause-and-effect mayhem. All of this is tackled on a micro and macro basis through our characters perspectives and priorities.

The culmination of events drives the pace and narrative around our characters and their self-induced mutual destruction and farce.

This film captures the zeitgeist approach of situational engaging character driven stories for today’s audience while emulating the comedic observations of films of their time including “Four Wedding and a Funeral”, “Death at a Funeral”, “Anyone but You”.

And now “Love, Lies & Lingune”.

Cast & Crew

Writer / Director / Producer: Rodrigo Torres Badoino

Executive Producer: Peter Taylor