Lonely Planet, the new Laura Dern and Liam Hemsworth movie now streaming on Netflix, has nothing to do with the travel book series and website of the same name. That said, travel is an important part of this new swoon-worthy romance. And you better believe that, like the many other recent Netflix destination romances, Lonely Planet was filmed on location.
Written and directed by Susannah Grant (also known for penning Oscar-nominated script for Erin Brockovich), Lonely Planet stars Dern as a successful novelist named Katherine Loewe, who attends a prestigious writer’s retreat in Morocco and falls into a romantic entanglement with a younger man, Owen Brophy, played by Hunger Games hunk Liam Hemsworth. Lonely Planet is the latest entry in the recent surge of older women/younger men romances, and it’s just as sizzling as its desert location.
But just because Lonely Planet takes place in Morocco doesn’t mean it was filmed in Morocco.
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