A Tourist’s Guide to Love’s Amanda Riley (Rachael Leigh Cook) seems to have it all figured out. A travel executive at a Los Angeles-based company called Tourista, she can solve any vacation emergency within seconds. Wrong booze cruise? No problem! But when it comes to her personal life, Amanda isn’t very good with the unplanned. She plays things safe, from her signature creamy nail color to her forensic accountant boyfriend whose “love language” is doing her taxes for free. For proof, just watch the film’s opening scene above, available only on Tudum.
“When we meet Amanda, she’s living a life that she believes to be orderly and hardworking,” Cook tells Tudum. “She’s in a relationship with a man who’s kind and responsible, but there’s a vast disconnect within Amanda between what she believes that she should do — how she should live — and a far more vibrant life lived with presence, urgency and passion.”
When an unforeseen event unexpectedly jolts Amanda out of her comfort zone, her boss and best friend Mona (played by her one-time Josie and the Pussycats co-star Missi Pyle) sends her undercover on a group tour through Vietnam. Suddenly, the itinerary she’d planned for her life no longer makes sense. And with the help of the charming tour guide Sinh (Scott Ly), Amanda realizes that her future may lie off the beaten path.
“I wanted to tell the story of A Tourist’s Guide to Love because it embraces this uplifting, heartwarming universal message of discovering the best of yourself,” director Steven K. Tsuchida tells Tudum. “You need to fall in love with yourself before falling in love with someone else.”
Will Amanda finally throw away her guidebook? Find out when A Tourist’s Guide to Love streams on Netflix on April 21.
