Eternity
A romantic comedy set in the afterlife, where a woman has one week to choose between her late husband and her first love.
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About the film
You can only choose one.
What it’s about
After Joan dies, she enters an afterlife where every soul gets seven days to decide where to spend eternity. She faces a choice between the man she spent her life with and the first love who died young and has waited decades for her.
What hooks you
Elizabeth Olsen plays Joan, with Miles Teller as her husband and Callum Turner as her first love. Director David Freyne co-wrote the script with Patrick Cunnane. Shortly before the Toronto premiere, Freyne was diagnosed with a brain tumour; after surgery, he attended the London premiere with his neurosurgeons and thanked them from the stage.
Who it’s for
It will appeal to those who like romantic comedies with a supernatural twist, stories about second chances, and characters forced to weigh a lifelong partnership against the pull of a first love.
Ratings
MOVIE․ONE · 192 votesCreative team
All 11Trivia
- Miles Teller and Da'Vine Joy Randolph shared an agent, and they had wanted to star together for some time.
- Shortly before the film's premiere in Toronto, director and screenwriter David Freyne was diagnosed with a brain tumor. He made it to the Toronto premiere in September 2025, but after that he underwent brain surgery and a significant portion of the tumor was removed. After the surgery, Freyne and four neurosurgeons attended the film's London premiere, where Freyne thanked them from the stage for the successful operation.
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