Screening Date: 13 November 2025
Screening Time: 8.40 pm
Release Date: 2024
Director: Tracie Laymon
Country: USA
Running Time: 102 mins
Rating: PG-13
Language: English
A warm-hearted, digital-age dramedy that begins with a click and blossoms into a life-altering bond, Bob Trevino Likes It follows twenty-something Lily Trevino (Barbie Ferreira), who tracks her absentee father on Facebook only to stumble across another Bob Trevino (John Leguizamo) who keeps “liking” her posts. What starts as a quirky online mix-up grows into a found-family story about choosing (and being chosen by) the people who show up when biology fails.
It’s always dicey when a movie leans on social-media feeds; you can’t help wondering if pop-up notifications will smother genuine emotion. Will thumbs-up icons replace heartbeats? Can a premise built on algorithms dodge sitcom schmaltz? In this case, absolutely yes.
Shot guerrilla-style across Louisville and rural Kentucky on a SAG-AFTRA waiver during the 2023 strikes—often in borrowed clinics and roadside diners—Laymon’s autobiographical debut channels the same scrappy optimism as its heroine. The roll-with-what-you-have ethic paid off: the film swept both the Grand Jury and Audience Awards at SXSW 2024, catapulting its $2 million indie production into arthouse must-see status.
More than a “cute meet” movie, Bob Trevino Likes It digs into inter-generational trauma, the economics of forgiveness and the radical notion that love can arrive in unexpected usernames. By the closing credits, the simple act of clicking “like” feels downright revolutionary.
“Tender, big-hearted… an instant comfort-watch.” – The Hollywood Reporter
