‘Am I OK?’: Dakota Johnson stars in a film about coming out in your 30s
“Am I OK?” is the sort of warm, feel-good LGBTQ movie dependent on its adhesion to the simplest depictions of queerness, especially coming out of the closet, and that’s both one of its great banes and boons.
The long-awaited Dakota Johnson lesbian rom-com, “Am I OK?” finally premiered on Max two years after its festival premiere and it does so just in time for Pride Month. The cute film about coming out later in life is directed by the sapphic married couple Stephanie Allynne and Tig Notaro, the latter of whom makes a spectacular cameo in a role only she could have played as a hammock retreat instructor, and is led by a mostly female and queer-friendly crew. St. Vincent (credited as Anne Erin Clark) even contributes to the film’s music.
“Am I OK?” is the sort of warm, feel-good LGBTQ movie dependent on its adhesion to the simplest depictions of queerness, especially coming out of the closet, and that’s both one of its great banes and boons.
Johnson, in addition to helping to produce through her company TeaTime Pictures, plays Lucy, a 32-year-old Angeleno woman just now realizing that she likes women more than she likes men. It may be another queer film about coming out, but at least this one feels authentic and delivers a more infrequently told coming out story than the usual late teens or early 20s awakening.
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