HBO Max has released the official trailer for Miss You, Love You, a new HBO Original film starring Allison Janney and Andrew Rannells.
The film follows Diane, a widow preparing for her husband’s funeral, and Jamie, the personal assistant sent by her estranged son instead of the son himself. It is an awkward, painful setup, but the trailer suggests that Miss You, Love You is not interested in grief as pure misery. Instead, it finds humour in the strange, uncomfortable and sometimes absurd ways people try to survive emotional damage.
Allison Janney looks perfectly placed at the centre of that balance. She can move from sharp comedy to vulnerability without making either feel forced, and Diane seems like the kind of role that lets her do both. Andrew Rannells, meanwhile, brings a nervous warmth to Jamie, a man thrown into someone else’s family crisis with no real emotional map.
Written and directed by Jim Rash, the film appears to explore grief as something messy rather than graceful. Funerals rarely bring out clean emotions. They reopen old wounds, expose unfinished conversations and force people into rooms with memories they would rather avoid. That gives Miss You, Love You room to be funny, uncomfortable and quietly devastating at the same time.
The title itself carries a slightly complicated emotional charge. “Miss you, love you” sounds tender, but it can also come from relationships that are fractured, strained or unresolved. The trailer seems to understand that contradiction: love does not always arrive neatly, and missing someone does not mean the relationship was simple.
For viewers drawn to character-led drama with dry humour and emotional bite, Miss You, Love You looks like a strong HBO release. It is not selling huge spectacle or melodrama, but something smaller and more human: two people, both caught in grief, slowly discovering that connection can come from the most inconvenient places.
Miss You, Love You debuts on HBO and streams on HBO Max on May 29.
Video source: HBO Max
