Love, Rosie (2014)

Most people think so. 81% of audiences gave it a thumbs up, by Google's archived audience score. Critics scored it lower at 38%, but audiences disagreed.

Since the moment they met at age 5, Rosie and Alex have been best friends, facing the highs and lows of growing up side by side. A fleeting shared moment, one missed opportunity, and the decisions that follow send their lives in completely different directions. As each navigates the complexities of life, love, and everything in between, they always find their way back to each other - but is it just friendship, or something more? Wikipedia ↗

Love, Rosie is a 2014 British-German romantic comedy-drama directed by Christian Ditter, based on Cecelia Ahern's 2004 novel Where Rainbows End. Lily Collins and Sam Claflin star as Rosie Dunne and Alex Stewart, best friends since childhood who are clearly meant for each other but whose timing is perpetually, agonizingly wrong. Over 12 years of near-misses — an unplanned pregnancy, a move to Harvard, marriages to other people, career opportunities on different continents — Rosie and Alex maintain their friendship while the audience screams at them to admit their feelings.

The film drew its emotional power from the audience's certainty that Rosie and Alex belong together combined with the frustrating plausibility of each obstacle that keeps them apart. Lily Collins brought warmth and resilience to Rosie, a woman whose life doesn't follow the plan she imagined but who builds something meaningful regardless.