Jamie and Jessie are room-mates and lesbians, but - despite the assumptions of many people they know - they aren't a couple. Jessie would rather like that to change, but she seems rather more comfortable pining unrequitedly while sabotaging her own relationships and getting snippy at the oblivious Jamie for her sexual promiscuity, than in ... well, in doing anything to actually make them into a couple.
But now Jamie will be leaving for New York in only two weeks, so if Jessie ever wants anything to happen, she has to make it happen now. Will she rise to the challenge? Or will she just keep singing mediocre songs about how she doesn't have the girlfriend she wants? Heck, is Jamie even actually the girlfriend she really wants?
You may have noticed the reference to songs, because yes, this is a musical ... well, if "there are four or five short and not very got song and dance numbers in it" really makes a film a musical. For my money, they needed to commit much harder to this element of the movie (and write significantly better songs), or ditch it entirely. Probably the latter, since that would be easier.
I must confess I also found it hard to warm to Jessie. She spends most of the film resenting the woman she claims to love and indulging in a lot of toxic "nice guy-isms". And I guess I can see that that's maybe the point, and that moving past that toxicity is essential for her growth as a person, but even if that was the goal, the execution just wasn't that enjoyable to me.
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