Fans of the writer-director Charlie Kaufman's playfully complex art films like Synecdoche, New York and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind may be surprised to see his name in the credits of an animated kids' movie. But while this adaptation of an Emma Yarlett picture book (directed by Sean Charmatz from a Kaufman screenplay) is very much oriented toward children, it has some of the metafictional layers for which Kaufman is known.
Based on a David Nicholls novel (previously adapted into a 2011 movie), this romantic dramedy miniseries covers 20 years in the lives of two University of Edinburgh classmates, who have one painfully awkward date after graduation in 1988 and then spend much of their young adulthood staying in touch but failing to become a couple.
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