The Love Language Trailer Traps Chloë Grace Moretz in a Full-Blown Love-Rectangle

LOS ANGELES — The setup is almost cruelly perfect: a woman who writes wedding vows for a living, hired to write the vows for the wedding of the man she never got over — to someone else. That's the engine of Love Language, the new romantic comedy from writer-director Joey Power, whose official trailer arrived October 8 via PEOPLE ahead of an October 23 release in select theaters and on digital and VOD from Vertical.

Chloë Grace Moretz stars as Louisa "Lou" Klaussner, an aspiring author who, following a failed engagement, stumbles into a side hustle ghostwriting wedding vows. The trailer opens with her friend (Billie Lourd) making the pitch — "You're the best writer I know. Help me write my vows?" Said flatly it's a favor between friends; in context, it's the trap snapping shut. And Lou says yes, because of course she does. She can articulate everyone else's love story. Her own is the problem.

Enter the two complications. First, Dash (Anthony Ramos), the charming serial-dater who spots the business angle immediately. "The wedding business is like a billion-dollar industry. You can make like mad racks," he said — in what is either the least romantic or most honest meet-cute of the year. Then the past knocks: Lou reconnects with her college best friend and long-time crush Warren (Manny Jacinto), only to learn he is the fiancé of Olivia (Isabel May) — one of Lou's wedding-vow clients. As Warren puts it to her, in the line the whole trailer builds toward: "I was in love with you in college."

That confession gives Lou something worse than heartbreak: writer's block. There's something genuinely sharp in that detail — a woman paid to put love into words for strangers, suddenly unable to find the words for what's actually happening to her. It's the kind of rom-com irony that works because it hurts a little.

The film world-premiered at the 2026 SXSW Film Festival back in March, where the programmers' description upgraded the premise from triangle to "love-rectangle" — four people, all tangled. Comparisons to this year's Materialists are already flying, and they're not crazy: Dakota Johnson's hit also followed a woman torn between a wealthy man and an ex while managing an ambitious career. But Love Language has its own angle — Lou's work literally forces her to script the happy ending she's locked out of.

The ensemble around Moretz is doing a lot of the heavy lifting on paper: Anthony Ramos, Manny Jacinto, Isabel May, with Billie Lourd as the friend, Lukas Gage as another friend and Chloe Fineman as Lou's boss, per PEOPLE. Behind it, Joey Power — the indie filmmaker behind After Everything — writes and directs, with producers Bert Hamelinck, Allison Hironaka, Ari Lubet, Jeff Grosvenor and, in a fun wrinkle, Colin Jost. The film runs 104 minutes.

Vertical's release plan — select theaters plus digital and VOD on the same day, October 23 — is the modern mid-budget rom-com playbook: no theatrical-only gamble, no streaming burial. Just get it in front of the people who want it, the weekend they want it. And the calendar is kind: late October, when audiences are between horror season and the holiday prestige crush, is exactly where a warm, funny movie can breathe.

There's also the pedigree question, and it's stronger than the average VOD rom-com. Power is an indie filmmaker — FirstShowing notes he's the director of After Everything plus a handful of shorts — making the step up with a cast that reads like a festival programmer's wish list. Moretz leading a romantic comedy is itself a story: she's spent recent years in prestige and genre work, and a big-hearted commercial rom-com is a lane she hasn't driven in a while. Around her, Ramos and Jacinto are both coming off career-high visibility, and the bench — Lourd, Gage, Fineman — is stacked with people who are funny on purpose.

The Materialists comparison will follow this movie everywhere, and it's worth taking seriously rather than dismissing. ComingSoon flagged the resemblance directly: a woman torn between a wealthy man and an ex while managing an ambitious career. But the differences matter more than the similarities. Materialists played its triangle as melancholy and adult; Love Language, per the trailer, is playing its rectangle for big comic set pieces and genuine ache in equal measure — and the wedding-vow-ghostwriter hook gives Lou a reason to be in every scene of the chaos, not just the romantic ones. At 104 minutes, it's also promising not to overstay its welcome.

What's next is simple: October 23, select theaters and everywhere you rent movies. For a film that premiered at SXSW in March to a warm reception, the seven-month wait to release has been the quiet part — now the trailer finally gives general audiences a reason to mark the date.