Oh Hi! (2025) – Plot, Cast, Production & Box‑Office Facts

Oh Hi! (2025) – Plot, Cast, Production & Box‑Office Facts

The 2025 dark romantic comedy Oh Hi! was written and directed by Sophie Brooks, who developed the story together with lead actress Molly Gordon. The film follows Iris and Isaac, a young couple newly in love whose first weekend getaway spirals into an absurd, shadow‑tinged “love‑as‑captivity” farce when their expectations clash.

Oh Hi! premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on January 26 2025, after which Sony Pictures Classics acquired worldwide distribution rights and scheduled a limited North‑American theatrical release for July 25 2025.The cast also features Logan Lerman, Geraldine Viswanathan, and John Reynolds alongside Gordon. The picture runs 95 minutes and is presented in English.

Plot Summary of Oh, Hi! (2025)

Iris (Molly Gordon) and Isaac (Logan Lerman) share a tense moment during their weekend getaway in Oh, Hi!. Iris and Isaac are a young couple of about four months who set off on their first romantic weekend trip together at a picturesque farmhouse in upstate New York. At first, the getaway is blissful: they drive through scenic country roads, flirt at a roadside strawberry stand, and settle in for a cozy evening at the rental house. The two act like a smitten pair – singing along to songs in the car and engaging in affectionate antics – even drawing the ire of a nosy neighbor, Steve (David Cross), who scolds them for their public displays of affection. That night, Isaac cooks a romantic dinner and everything seems perfect as they dine under the stars, still in the exciting “getting to know you” stage of their relationship.

On their first night in the house, the couple discovers a stash of BDSM gear hidden in a closet and, after a few drinks, decide to spice things up by trying some light bondage play. Isaac willingly lets Iris handcuff him to the bed, and they enthusiastically make love. However, during their playful post-coital cuddling, Iris unwittingly stirs up trouble by gushing that she’s so happy to be a couple with Isaac. This innocent remark makes Isaac recoil – he bluntly admits he never saw their fling as a committed relationship.

Tied to the headboard and unable to escape, Isaac confesses that he isn’t looking for anything serious (in fact, he thought they were just casually “hanging out”). The revelation devastates Iris. Feeling misled and hurt, she snaps – instead of freeing Isaac, she leaves him chained up in bed as a captive of her outrage. Iris declares she’ll keep him there for at least the next 12 hours, using that time to persuade him that he does want to be her boyfriend after all. Isaac, still naked and literally tied down, has little choice but to begrudgingly hear her out.

Over the course of the next day, Iris’s desperate campaign to win Isaac over grows increasingly frantic. She dotes on him and debates relationship expectations at length, but Isaac – still handcuffed to the bed – only becomes more disturbed by her clingy determination. Eventually, when her solo efforts fail to change his mind, Iris calls for backup. She enlists her best friend Max (Geraldine Viswanathan) for help, and Max soon arrives with her easygoing boyfriend, Kenny (John Reynolds). The two friends are shocked to find Isaac literally held hostage, and they recognize that Iris’s stunt has now escalated into an actual crime (kidnapping!).

Instead of going to the police, the trio brainstorm absurd solutions to extricate themselves from the situation. Max proposes a wildly unorthodox fix: her sister is a witch, she claims, and can provide a spell to erase Isaac’s memory of the past day. With few options, they decide to attempt this Wiccan remedy. Iris and Max gather strange ingredients and brew a make-shift memory erasure potion, managing to coax the suspicious Isaac into drinking it. To seal the spell, Iris and Max perform a midnight ritual – they strip naked and dance around a bonfire, chanting incantations in hopes of magically wiping away Isaac’s recollection of his captivity.

By the next morning, it appears the bizarre potion has worked: Isaac wakes up acting blissfully unaware of the previous day’s events. He’s cheerful and normal with Iris, as if nothing ever went wrong. Relieved, Iris truly believes the supernatural solution succeeded. She unlocks Isaac’s cuffs and eagerly entertains his suggestion to make breakfast together. But Isaac has been faking. Under the pretense of grabbing pancake ingredients from the car, he takes Iris’s keys and makes a run for it.

In reality, an open window had allowed him to overhear their entire “memory wipe” scheme, so he only pretended to lose his memory in order to secure his escape. Isaac jumps into Iris’s car and speeds off alone into the rainy night. Panicked, Max and Kenny want to chase him down, but Iris, defeated, assumes their fate is sealed and stays behind. As Isaac flees on the slick roads, karma strikes – he gets into a serious car accident while driving away. A phone call from the police soon informs Iris that her car was found wrecked off the road, airbags deployed, but the driver (Isaac) was nowhere to be found at the crash site.

Alarmed for Isaac’s safety, Iris races into the surrounding woods to search for him herself. She eventually discovers Isaac injured and stranded in a valley not far from the crash – he’s alive but badly hurt and unable to walk on his own. In this moment, the fight between them finally dissolves. Iris and Isaac share a genuinely honest exchange, both owning up to their mistakes. Iris tearfully apologizes for her out-of-control behavior in locking him up, acknowledging she went way too far, and Isaac admits that his dishonesty and fear of commitment set the whole disaster in motion.

They reach a mutual understanding, forgiving each other while also recognizing that they’ve gone through an outrageous ordeal. When an ambulance arrives, Isaac is loaded in to be taken to the hospital, and the pair implicitly accept that their relationship is over for good. In a bittersweet final moment, Iris bids Isaac farewell with a line that recalls both an inside joke from earlier in the trip and a classic movie goodbye. “We’ll always have O High,” she says, referencing a broken High Falls road sign (missing its first letter) they had laughed about and cheekily alluding to Casablanca’s famous parting line.

The remark sails over Isaac’s head – he doesn’t recognize the callback – underlining one last time how the two were never truly on the same page. With that, Iris and Isaac part ways, ending their chaotic weekend with hard-earned clarity and no romantic fairy-tale reunion, but rather a lesson learned about honesty and boundaries in love.

Oh, Hi! Main Cast & Characters

Character	Story Role (verified plot details)	Actor	Official Instagram
Iris	An impulsive illustrator whose weekend‑getaway fantasy shatters when she handcuffs her boyfriend to the bed in a desperate bid for commitment	Molly Gordon	@mollsterg
Isaac	A seemingly tender but commitment‑phobic musician who becomes Iris’s unwilling captive during the ill‑fated trip	Logan Lerman	@loganlerman
Max	Iris’s pragmatic best friend; she arrives to “help” and suggests a bizarre memory‑wipe ritual to erase Isaac’s ordeal	Geraldine Viswanathan	@yoyogeraldine
Kenny	Max’s laid‑back boyfriend who’s dragged into the escalating chaos at the lake‑house	John Reynolds	@john_p_reynolds
Steve	The cantankerous next‑door neighbor whose complaints serve as an outside reality check on the couple’s turmoil	David Cross	@davidcrossofficial

Production, Distribution & Box Office

Oh Hi! was co‑produced by independent outfits Cliffbrook Films and Watermark Media, among others, and lensed on an ALEXA Mini in the 16 × 9 aspect ratio. Principal photography took place in both New Hampshire’s lake region and Brooklyn.

In March, Sony Pictures Classics announced that it had acquired worldwide distribution rights and would follow a three‑step rollout: a Sundance premiere, a limited summer theatrical window, and a fall streaming launch. On opening day (25 July) the film took in just US $740,000 from 866 theatres, while estimates circulating on social media and Reddit put the first‑weekend gross in the US $2.6–3 million range.

Critical Reception & Audience Response

Rotten Tomatoes reports an 83 % Fresh score, with the critical consensus praising the film for “pushing the edges of romantic‑comedy convention, blending The Last Seduction–style black humor with Gen‑Z relationship anxiety.” Roger Ebert’s site awarded the picture three stars, calling its climax “both hilarious and heartbreaking.” WBUR highlighted the film’s unsettling yet truthful look at power imbalances between partners, while TIME magazine said the ending “boldly refuses a fairy‑tale wrap‑up.”

The Associated Press applauded the cast’s chemistry but warned viewers to note the story’s undercurrents of manipulation and codependency—fueling wider discussion of relationship power and abuse.