{"id":2327589,"date":"2026-03-14T04:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T04:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2327589"},"modified":"2026-03-14T04:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T04:38:08","slug":"the-sun-never-sets-review-dakota-fanning-and-jake-johnson-bring-warm-chemistry-to-joe-swanbergs-wishy-washy-romantic-dramedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/the-sun-never-sets-review-dakota-fanning-and-jake-johnson-bring-warm-chemistry-to-joe-swanbergs-wishy-washy-romantic-dramedy\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Sun Never Sets\u2019 Review: Dakota Fanning and Jake Johnson Bring Warm Chemistry to Joe Swanberg\u2019s Wishy-Washy Romantic Dramedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">\u201cZero part of me wants to do what I\u2019m doing right now,\u201d insists Jack (<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm2159926\/\">Jake Johnson<\/a>) as he prepares to tell Wendy (<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0266824\/\">Dakota Fanning<\/a>), his girlfriend of two years, that he thinks they should take a six-month break. He believes she needs the space to figure out what she wants, even as she pleads that what she wants is him.<\/p>\n<p>Oddly, he seems to mean it, or at least to believe he does. He really is happy with her; he really doesn\u2019t have an ulterior motive; he really does intend to just sit around for the next six months, waiting to see if she returns.<\/p>\n<p>Why, then, he mounts this ultimatum anyway is one of the emotional mysteries of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt39368267\/\">The Sun Never Sets<\/a>. Mostly they\u2019re fun ones, thanks to writer-director <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1846132\/\">Joe Swanberg<\/a>\u2019s knack for naturalistic chemistry and eye for casual beauty. But just as listening to&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cZero part of me wants to do what I\u2019m doing right now,\u201d insists Jack (Jake Johnson) as he prepares to tell Wendy (Dakota Fanning), his girlfriend of two years, that he thinks they should take a six-month break. He believes she needs the space to figure out what she wants, even as she pleads that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2327590,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2327589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/\u2018The-Sun-Never-Sets-Review-Dakota-Fanning-and-Jake-Johnson.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2327589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2327589"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2327589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2327591,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2327589\/revisions\/2327591"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2327590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2327589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2327589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2327589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}