Mr. Malcolm's List (2022) on Netflix
PG20221h 57m
Julia Thistlewaite is jilted after failing to meet an item on Mr. Malcolm's list of requirements for a bride. She invites her friend Selina Dalton to pose as his perfect match.
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- IMDb6.0/107,042 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes83%
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Plot summary
After the opera, Julia Thistlewaite is mocked in a caricature that suggests she failed to impress Mr. Jeremy Malcolm, the season's most eligible bachelor. She asks her cousin, Lord Cassidy, to find out what offended him, and he returns with the news that Malcolm keeps a list of requirements for a bride. Offended, Julia summons her friend Selina Dalton to London and trains the reluctant newcomer to present herself as Malcolm's ideal woman, so that Selina can later reject him with a list of her own. Selina and Malcolm meet by chance in an orangery, where the two debate philosophy and are drawn to one another.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Mr. Malcolm's List (2022)
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- A short film version was shot in October 2018 in London and released online on February 14, 2019, and it has had over 2 million views; it starred Gemma Chan, Sope Dirisu, Oliver Jackson-Cohen and Freida Pinto.
- Filmmaker Emma Holly Jones discovered the script when The Black List did a podcast script reading of it in 2015; she pursued the rights and then brought on producer Laura Rister and subsequently Laura Lewis for the feature adaptation.
- Suzanne Allain self-published her novel Mr. Malcolm's List in 2009, and she then adapted her own book into the script.
- Based on the short film's success, the novel was published in 2020 by Berkley Press, and the feature film was financed.
