7 Days is a cute, charming movie about Covid. Or, rather, it’s a movie about two Indian-American twentysomethings who are on a date (arranged by their mothers) when the lock-down hits. Now they have to shelter-in-place together. Only for him to learn her profile on the dating app maybe exaggerated how traditional she actually is. Can these two mismatched kids make it work when trapped inside together?

I enjoyed this warm fuzzy film. It’s a pretty charming, pretty cute, pretty funny little romantic comedy. Yes, it’s also reminding you constantly of Covid but, really, they could be locked together for anything and the movie would remain frothy fun.

The two leads have a lot of chemistry together and are themselves individually funny. I recognized the guy but couldn’t place him… until I realized he was Dopinder from the Deadpool movies. I haven’t seen her in anything but she’s very good as the more brassy, the more cynical, and the more amused of the two.

If you like rom-coms but maybe don’t want yet another Covid film, I think this one’s safe. It’s more interested in being sweetly funny than it is about being a ripped-from-the-headlines hard-hitting whatever. It’s good fun.

Score: 82