Feb 19, 2023
85 min
Full-HD

Why Can't My Life Be a Rom-Com? (2023)

Eliza Sloane seems to be living her dream life until her boyfriend breaks her heart and she doesn’t get an expected promotion. Her best friend Sofia approaches her with a new path in life: move to the Hamptons and “marry a rich guy with a huge trust fund”.

Category

Romance Comedy TV Movie

Country

Canada

Companies

Timeless Pictures Basset Hound Distribution Ascending Media Group Goldstein Productions Kabinet

Em Haine

Eliza Sloane

Wern Lee

Doug

Markian Tarasiuk

Rich Hawthorne

Cecilia Deacon

Sofia Munoz

Aren Buchholz

Ryan

Roraigh Falkner

John Fuller

Byron Lawson

David

Joanne Wilson

Katherine Hawthorne

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