When a lovesick musician is given the wrong number for his dream girl, he teams up with a driven psychology student to find her. Together, they spark a hilarious campus-wide frenzy that tests their own hearts and ambitions along the way.

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Finding Emily (2026)

Right name, wrong number.

★ 6.9/10 May 21, 2026 111 min

ComedyRomance

Director: Alicia MacDonald  ·  Writer: Rachel Hirons

When a lovesick musician is given the wrong number for his dream girl, he teams up with a driven psychology student to find her. Together, they spark a hilarious campus-wide frenzy that tests their own hearts and ambitions along the way.

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Alicia MacDonald Alicia MacDonald

Cast

Spike Fearn Spike Fearn Owen Angourie Rice Angourie Rice Emily Raine Cora Kirk Cora Kirk Anna Jack Riddiford Jack Riddiford Matt Isabella Laughland Isabella Laughland Freya Prasanna Puwanarajah Prasanna Puwanarajah Professor Westlake Minnie Driver Minnie Driver Dean Watkinson Amber Grappy Amber Grappy Rhea Nadia Parkes Nadia Parkes Laura Lewis Kat Ronney Kat Ronney Emily Thewlis Sadie Soverall Sadie Soverall Fairy Emily Anthony J. Abraham Anthony J. Abraham Kyle

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CinemaSerf
CinemaSerf May 27, 2026
★ 7/10

"Owen" (Spike Fearn) is the sound guy at a student party who meets and falls for "Emily". She is about to head off when he asks for her number, but in her haste (or perhaps deliberately?) she only gives him ten of the necessary eleven digits. He's well and truly smitten and so decides he is going to track her down. Easier said than done as there are hundreds of girls called Emily at the university. His first enquiry introduces him to one who is over from the USA (Angourie Rice) and who is in need of a special project to complete her studies and, hopefully, secure a working visa for herself. She agrees to help him, but with her own ulterior motives never far from her mind she only succeeds in making things extremely complicated for a young man whose innocent enquiry ends up seeing him swimming against a tide of angrily toxic feminity that brands him as just about everything from a pest to…