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IRL (2019 film)

2019 American film

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 16, 2026
Entity authorityQ122762973 ↗
Source-derived summary

IRL is a 2019 American drama film directed by Ricardo Perez-Selsky and written by Chase Hinton. The film stars Hinton, Johanna Sol, Eric Roberts and Haskell V. Anderson III.

Plot

The story covers the ups and downs of online dating and modern dating.

Cast

Chase Hinton as Ian

Johanna Sol as Sofia

Eric Roberts as Jonathan

Haskell V. Anderson III as Richmond

Taymour Ghazi as Taymour

Elise Luthman

Samantha Cutaran

Molly Beucher

Release

The film premiered on March 5, 2019 at the Idyllwild International Festival of Cinema.

Reception

The film has a 100% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 12 reviews.

Josiah Teal at Film Threat scored it 8 out of 10. Jonathan W. Hickman at Newnan Times-Herald scored it 7 out of 10.

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The public source identifies “IRL (2019 film)” as 2019 American film. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around film and American.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2019—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with film and American providing the first useful test.
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Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 16, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q122762973. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2019.

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This entry incorporates text from “IRL (2019 film)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.