Really Love (2020) on Netflix
Isaiah Maxwell, a painter in Washington, D.C., meets Stevie Richmond, a law student, and the two connect. Gallery owner Chenai Hungwe asks him to make a piece for an upcoming exhibition.
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- Netflix3.6/5
- IMDb6.2/101,356 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes80%
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Plot summary
Isaiah Maxwell, a Black painter in Washington, D.C., wants to break into the art world. At a colleague's art show he meets Chenai Hungwe, a gallery owner, who asks him to make a piece for a coming exhibition, and Stevie Richmond, a Georgetown law student he connects with right away. The moment passes, until Isaiah's old friend Nick and Nick's girlfriend Mecca introduce the two again; the group stays out until morning. On the walk home they talk about themselves and exchange numbers. At the group show his friends are impressed but Chenai is not, leaving Isaiah deflated. Stevie encourages him and asks him to move in. She brings him to meet her family, where her parents ask about his background and finances, and her mother objects to Stevie's plan to practice law for people who cannot afford it.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Really Love (2020)
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- Really Love was shot partly in Baltimore, the hometown of director Angel Kristi Williams, and one of its shooting locations was Williams' own grandmother's home in Park Heights.
- The 2020 film Really Love is one of the last projects completed by actress Suzzanne Douglas, who died in 2021.
- Really Love was the feature debut of director Angel Kristi Williams and the debut screenplay of Felicia Pride, who met through a mutual friend and invited Williams to direct the project.
- Screenwriter Felicia Pride said the soundtrack's ambiance was influenced by tracks like "Sumthin Sumthin (Mellosmoothe)" by Maxwell from the film Love Jones.
