Chosen Family (2024), directed by Heather Graham

Yoga teacher Anne has an awful family and terrible taste in men, but luckily very good friends. They set her up with good guy Steve and it seems she might have finally found a good relationship. But Steve is going through a nasty divorce and his bratty daughter doesn’t want Anne on her territory. Can Anne stop being a people pleaser and learn to stand up for herself with her family and with Steve and his daughter? Heather Graham is an appealing Anne in this unusual rom com, set in Rhode Island, and Julia Stiles has fun as her drug addicted sister. The story is very slight and Anne possibly has rather too nice a house and car for an impoverished yoga teacher, but the cast is charming and the theme – all in the name – is refreshing and clearly close to the heart of its director, writer and star.