We know this because Susan McMartin's screenplay is explicit about the comparison, which is-let's say-a rather bold association. They later get into a debate about Pride and Prejudice, in which their bickering is supposed to remind us of the famous couple from that novel. Those two, by the way, meet when he's sitting in Tessa's dorm room, refusing to leave, after she gets out of the shower. When that's the most a soon-to-be-dumped boyfriend can offer, the muted sensuality of her romance with Hardin does seem like a big step up. The story has Tessa going off to college, accompanied by her mother Carol ( Selma Blair) and her still-in-high-school boyfriend Noah ( Dylan Arnold), who behaves more like a brother to Tessa, until he gives her a quick peck on the lips as a most underwhelming farewell. The most we get here is a lot of sleepy actors, who perhaps could be mistaken for the undead in certain scenes, and some very polite foreplay. Unlike a couple of the more popular examples of such wheel-spinning romances, there are neither supernatural creatures nor any scenes of kinky sex.
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Like the most recently popular series of such movie adaptations, there isn't so much an isolated story as there are about three major events, culminating in a final promise that future installments will provide us with something more. The movie is adapted from the first book in Anna Todd's series of novels, which might explain why nothing here seems to be on the life-defining level promised by the opening voice-over.