Focus Features has released the official trailer for Finding Emily, a new romantic comedy built around one wonderfully simple problem: what happens when the perfect connection starts with the wrong number?
The film follows a lovesick musician who believes he has met the girl of his dreams, only to realise that the number he has been given may not lead to her at all. Instead of giving up, he teams up with a determined psychology student, and together they set out to find Emily somewhere on campus.
That setup gives Finding Emily a charmingly old-school rom-com hook. It is not about dating apps, algorithms or perfectly curated profiles. It is about obsession, bad decisions, emotional chaos and the ridiculous lengths people will go to when they think they have found “the one.” Naturally, the search does not stay small for long, and the trailer suggests that the mission quickly turns into a campus-wide frenzy.
Angourie Rice and Spike Fearn lead the film, with Minnie Driver also starring. Rice’s character brings a more analytical edge to the story, while Fearn’s lovestruck musician seems to become both a romantic lead and a walking case study in how attraction can completely scramble someone’s brain.
Directed by Alicia MacDonald and written by Rachel Hirons, Finding Emily looks like a bright, energetic romantic comedy with a strong theatrical feel. The trailer leans into campus energy, messy young love and the classic rom-com question hiding underneath the chaos: are you chasing the person you actually want, or the fantasy you built in your head?
Finding Emily opens only in theaters on August 28, 2026.
Video source: Focus Features
