Love Hypothesis Soundtrack: Every Song From Gracie Abrams To Haim — SkimNews
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- The Love Hypothesis adaptation, directed by Claire Scanlon, is now streaming on Prime Video with Lili Reinhart as PhD student Olive Smith and Tom Bateman as Dr. Adam Carlsen ("Dr. Evil") at Stanford University.
- The plot centers on Olive kissing Adam with zero warning to convince her best friend Ahnn (Rachel Marsh) she no longer has feelings for Jeremy (Nicholas Duvernay), sparking a fake relationship that becomes real.
- The story also highlights challenges women in STEM face, with supporting characters Olive's roommate Malcolm (Jaboukie Young-White) and Dr. Tom Benton (Arty Froushan) shaking up the dynamic.
- Gracie Abrams' "Mess It Up" opens the film, while The Go-Go's "Head Over Heels" plays in a karaoke scene performed by Jeremy and Ahn that the source flags as hinting at the film's turning point.
- Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco's "Cowboy" soundtracks the novel's famous Chapter 16 scene, one of the most anticipated moments in the source material.
- The full 11-song soundtrack also includes tracks from Real Estate, Cole Simon, The Veldt, MANICS, Freestylers feat. Alaska MC, Lucius, Katie Garfield, and Haim ("Gone").
Why it matters: For fans of Hazelwood's novel, the soundtrack reveal doubles as a spoiler roadmap: specific songs are tied to pivotal plot moments like the karaoke turning point and the Chapter 16 scene, giving readers a way to map the book onto the film. Reinhart and Bateman carry Prime Video's bet that a TikTok-viral romance novel can translate to screen.
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