Materialists (2025) on Netflix
Lucy Mason arranges matches for clients at a New York City agency while doubting her own prospects. At a wedding she meets a wealthy financier and her ex-boyfriend, a cater-waiter.
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Plot summary
Lucy Mason gave up acting to work as a matchmaker at Adore, a New York City agency where she finds partners for clients whose standards she finds unrealistic. Her client Sophie keeps failing to settle, and Lucy consoles her. Lucy herself expects little from romance. She attends the wedding of a former client, the ninth she has arranged, and talks up her agency to other guests. Harry Castillo, brother of the groom, overhears her and shows interest. She declines and suggests he hire Adore instead. Her ex-boyfriend John Pitts is at the reception too, working as a cater-waiter while he pursues acting, and the two look back on a relationship that ended over money. Harry keeps inviting her to upscale restaurants, and she wonders why he bothers with her.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Materialists (2025)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Lucy's costume includes a skirt suit that references Working Girl (1988), the film starring Melanie Griffith, mother of Materialists lead Dakota Johnson.
- To shape Pedro Pascal's look as the wealthy financier Harry, costume designer Danabassis used 1990s paparazzi photographs of John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette Kennedy in her pitch deck.
- Danabassis dressed John in a t-shirt for Foxy Vegetables, an East Coast produce brand, because it was her own shirt that she handed to the production.
