The Love Hypothesis

Olive Smith, a third-year Ph.D. candidate, holds a cynical view on lasting romantic relationships. However, to convince her best friend, Anh, that she's happily dating, Olive impulsively kisses the first man she sees in her lab. To her astonishment, that man is none other than Dr. Adam Carlsen, a notoriously aloof and 'asshole' professor at Stanford. What begins as a desperate charade to prove her romantic viability quickly evolves when Adam, surprisingly, agrees to be her fake boyfriend. Their arrangement, initially purely for show, is put to the test when Olive's career is jeopardized at a major science conference. Adam's unexpected support and undeniable charm begin to chip away at Olive's carefully constructed theories on love. As their scientific experiment in fake dating grows increasingly real, Olive finds herself questioning everything she thought she knew about romance, discovering that matters of the heart are far more complex and combustible than any hypothesis she's ever tackled in the lab.