It’s not that Charlie (Lewis Pullman) and Julia (Maya Hawke) are no longer in love with each other. It’s obvious from the first minutes of Wishful Thinking, Graham Parkes’ clever and funny directorial debut, that they very much are, trading compliments with the friskiness of two people who know each other well enough to feel completely at ease, yet still find each other thrilling enough to flirt with.
It’s that for all the affection — warm, lively, sexy — coursing between them, they can’t seem to stop fighting. Case in point: Within moments of the exchange described above, the couple have talked themselves into an all-night cage match of an argument, packed with loaded phrases that make it clear they’ve been down this exact road many times before.
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