20/06/2026 04:22 - Entretenimiento
Escena romántica de una pareja joven en un café de San Francisco con un teléfono móvil en primer plano
Netflix added to its catalog this Friday, June 19 a production that promises to revive the golden age of romantic comedies with a modern twist. "Voicemails for Isabelle" arrives with a runtime of one hour and 56 minutes and a premise that sets it apart from other offerings in the genre.
Under the direction of Leah McKendrick, the film achieves an unusual balance: it anchors a tender romance directly in a real grieving process, blending emotion with everyday laughs in an organic way.
The actress, known for titles like Set It Up and Buffaloed, leads the project with a character who navigates fragility and humor simultaneously. Her performance combines drama and comedy with the characteristic seal of Netflix original productions.
The actor, recognized for films like Love, Simon, completes the leading duo playing a real estate agent who lives in another city and unexpectedly receives the voicemails.
The plot follows Jill, a young woman who finds her own way to process the painful death of her sister Isabelle: she keeps calling her old phone number to leave her extensive voicemails with the most chaotic episodes of her daily routine in San Francisco.
What Jill doesn't know is that number has already been reassigned to another person. Wes, a real estate agent living in another city, begins receiving those audios unexpectedly. Having never seen her in his life, he starts listening to them one after another and falls madly in love with that mysterious voice.
Willing to do whatever it takes, he decides to travel to meet her, but he hides a secret about how he became attracted to her that could complicate the future of the relationship and change the ending of the story.
The movie joins Netflix's extensive catalog of romantic comedies in a year when the platform has bet heavily on the genre, with releases every two or three weeks, seeking to capture audiences who find in these stories a predictable and emotional refuge.
Alfredo S. Quiroga
