"Materialists" — Read The Screenplay By Celine Song
Love, Money, and the Stories We Tell to Survive New York.
"Materialists" (2025) is a romance for the New York of now -- a city where love is tender, money is loud, and everyone is performing a version of themselves they hope someone will fall for.
Celine Song follows a young art-world assistant whose life becomes a triangle of desire, ambition, and financial reality when she’s torn between two wildly different men: one wealthy and emotionally opaque, the other tender but unstable. What unfolds is a modern love story about class, craving, and the way people curate their lives like museums -- beautiful from a distance, messier up close.
Quietly funny, painfully observant, and achingly human, "Materialists" is a study in how love feels when you’re trying to build a life and an identity at the same time.
"Materialists" — Educator Resources & Study Guide
Romance, Reality, and Reinvention: Writing Love in the Age of Ambition.
With "Materialists," Celine Song deepens the emotional territory she mapped with Past Lives. The script blends romance and comedy to explore how identity, class, and longing collide in the world’s most performative city. Every conversation feels like a negotiation -- about love, stability, purpose, or debt -- yet Song’s writing stays warm, patient, and deeply empathetic.
For screenwriters, the film is an example in romantic realism, showing how to write relationships defined not by tropes, but by the invisible pressures of money, timing, and self-worth.
Materialists (2025) — Classroom Study
With "Materialists," Celine Song turns the modern New York romance inside out. Her protagonist -- a young art-world assistant juggling desire, ambition, and financial precarity -- finds herself drawn into a love triangle that doubles as a class collision. One man offers stability without intimacy; the other offers intimacy without stability. Song’s writing is gentle but cutting, full of seemingly simple conversations that reveal entire philosophies of love, money, and worth. The script never judges its characters -- it simply lets them want things, sometimes beautifully, sometimes disastrously. For screenwriting students, Materialists is a stunning example of romantic realism, where every emotion sits atop a foundation of economic truth and human contradiction.
- Writing romance without tropes or melodrama.
- New York as character and pressure cooker.
- Love triangles as mirrors, not competitions.
- The intersection of class and desire.
- Emotional pacing in character-driven stories.
- Humor as emotional lubrication in drama.
"Materialists" One Sheet & Script Intel
A young, ambitious New York City matchmaker finds herself torn between the perfect match and her imperfect ex. A24
| Type | ... |
FYC
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| Version | ... | FINALFYC |
| Date | ... | 04.08.2024 |
| Pages | ... | 108 |
| Genres | ... | Comedy Drama Romance |
| Screenplay | ... | Celine Song |
| IMDb ID | ... | 30253473 |
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