What Happens Later

What Happens Later

Two ex-lovers, Bill and Willa, get snowed in at a regional airport overnight. Indefinitely delayed, Willa, a magical thinker, and Bill, a catastrophic one, find themselves just as attracted to and annoyed by one another as they did decades earlier. But as they unpack the riddle of their mutual past and compare their lives to the dreams they once shared, they begin to wonder if their reunion is mere coincidence, or something more enchanted.

  • Released:
  • Runtime: 105 minutes
  • Genre: Comedy, Romance
  • Stars: David Duchovny, Meg Ryan
  • Director: Meg Ryan
 Comments
  • szulu-96816 - 20 May 2024
    Endearing, clever and witty
    Perhaps you need to be a boomer to appreciate this movie, or have some life experience at least, but my husband and I loved it so much, we watched it twice! Brilliant acting from both Meg Ryan and David Duchovny. Clever, relatable dialogue and so endearing, it's palpable. For those reviewers who knocked this movie because they felt there wasn't 'enough action'.... then they really didn't listen to the words... Or just can't relate for the reasons stated above. If you want mindless action, go see some CGI sci-fi movie. This movie doesn't require any more action than the interaction between these two people with a complicated past and a hopeful future. Kudos!
  • MechanicForHireUSMC - 20 March 2024
    It was heavy man...
    I like movies that make you think and allow you to riminess about one's past of what could have. I have a similar sorrowful situation that I went through growing up and I can relate to the movie. It was nice to see Meg back on the screen again, I haven't seen all her movies but the one that comes to mind is City of Angels. David was a perfect fit for this film as his character handled the unknowing news from his past with restraint since it changed the course of his life when it didn't have to. Both took pokes at each other, and I expected either one to get upset and storm off...but that didn't happen. The love they felt for one another over rid their pride. I thought the movie was fantastic, the acting was superb and the airport announcer hilarious. Thank you both for this great movie.
  • TxMike - 16 January 2024
    W. Davis and W. Davis meet in a snowed-in airport. And talk.
    This movie is nothing like I thought it would be, considering what kinds of roles each actor has had in the past. After 16 minutes I considered abandoning it but my wife wanted to continue so we did. On DVD from our public library.

    The two actors were born in 1960 and 1961, so they both were in their early 60s. It turns out that they were both W. Davis and they referred to each other that way frequently.

    Meg Ryan is Willa and David Duchovny is Bill. It turns out they were sweethearts when they were in their 20s and eventually went their separate ways after finding out their life goals were different. Now they are both stranded in a regional airport when a storm, a bomb cyclone, arrives and all flights are put on hold. She lives in Austin and was headed to Boston, he lives in Boston and was headed to Austin.

    So this is not a rom-com as I expected. Instead it is a fairly serious commentary on life, the difference in a trip vs a journey. The hard part is the movie only has these two characters and almost all the movie is them talking. I found that I could close my eyes and listen and not miss anything.

    It has some redeeming qualities, but overall I don't rate it very highly and certainly would not want to watch it again.