Netflix has released the trailer for Voicemails for Isabelle, a new romantic comedy starring Zoey Deutch and Nick Robinson, ahead of its arrival on the streamer on 19 June. Written and directed by Leah McKendrick, Voicemails for Isabelle follows Jill, played by Deutch, as she copes with the death of her sister Isabelle by continuing to leave voicemails on her old number. The messages cover everything from Jill’s chaotic life as an aspiring pastry chef in San Francisco to the grief she cannot quite say out loud anywhere else.
Things take an unexpected turn when Wes, an Austin real estate agent played by Robinson, is assigned Isabelle’s old number for his new work phone. Without Jill knowing, Wes begins receiving her hilariously confessional messages and slowly finds himself falling for the woman behind them.
The trailer leans into the film’s rom-com-ready set-up, with Jill and Wes connecting from opposite sides of the country before he makes his feelings known and turns up in San Francisco. Naturally, things become more complicated when Wes delays telling Jill the bittersweet reason he was drawn to her.
The film also stars Ciara Bravo as Isabelle, whose absence sits at the heart of Jill’s story, with Nick Offerman appearing as Chef Bastien, Jill’s difficult boss. Lukas Gage, Harry Shum Jr., Megan Danso, Toby Sandeman, Spencer Lord and Gil Bellows also feature, while McKendrick appears in the film as Breeda, Wes’s friend.
The trailer has a slightly old-school rom-com feeling beneath its modern set-up, and it seems happy to nod towards that. Harry Shum Jr.’s Andy jokes that Jill and Wes’ set-up is “like a sick reboot of You’ve Got Mail,” while Jill admits in one voicemail that she has a fantasy of someone coming to sit beside her, “like I’m Meg Ryan.” Right on cue, Wes appears at her bench and asks, “Is this seat taken?”
For CultureCues, this looks exactly like the kind of Netflix rom-com we will happily curl up with. Zoey Deutch has already proven with Set It Up that she knows how to carry a funny and emotionally sincere love story, and Voicemails for Isabelle seems to lean fully into that strength. The trailer balances grief, awkward humour and genuine sweetness surprisingly well, while the warm visuals and long-distance connection between Jill and Wes give the whole thing a cosy, heartfelt pull. Honestly, we already know this is probably going to make us laugh, cry and possibly do both at the same time. Either way, Voicemails for Isabelle has our attention, and we are very much looking forward to this one.
Voicemails for Isabelle streams on Netflix from 19 June. Watch the trailer below.
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