With Style is a classic romantic comedy about a mismatched couple overcoming their own unique foibles to fully realize themselves and their individual dreams.
Grace Gamber is an “almost” thirty year old garage rocker still dreaming of making it big. She has been working on recording her first album … for nearly ten years. It is nearly complete but she needs just one more song, a love ballad. Unfortunately for Grace she is a self proclaimed loser in love. She’s had crushes, infatuations, one night stands and friends with benefits but she has never been truly in love. While Grace’s nights are spent in smoky bars and closet sized clubs rocking her heart out, her days are filled with bang trims, dye jobs and trying to talk women out of perms. She swore to herself, and in front of all her friends, at her 21st birthday bash that if she didn’t make it by thirty she would put her guitar away forever and pick up her styling scissors permanently.
Since the sudden death of Charles McInnes’ new bride, Charlie has maintained the status quo in his life. Every day is the same for Charlie: 6 am rise, green smoothie breakfast, 45 minute jog, turkey sandwich lunch, coffee black at 3:02 sharp, baked chicken and salad for dinner, an evening walk and to bed at 10pm. His daily routine is a shrine to his lost love. Since he lost Annie in a tragic car accident only two months after their wedding, Charlie hasn’t tried a single new thing. A once great and daring architect, he now designs the same building over and over. Fearing that a change in his ways will lead to a new life and the eradication of his memories of the old, Charlie clings to his set ways for dear life.
Only weeks away from the fateful 3-0, Grace is on a mission to find love and complete her song. Unfortunately each date ends up being a bigger failure than the one before. Grace is ready to concede defeat and trade in her dream for a regular gig when Charles walks into her salon.
Charlie has been able to maintain his position in a prestigious firm because they had enough requests for the only building that he would design. When the architectural group is bought out and Charlie’s old vision doesn’t jive with their new one, his future is jeopardized. En route to the meeting deciding the fate of his career, Charlie is forced from his usual path by a stray dog that leads him straight under a construction site. Trying to shoo the pup away, he knocks over a ladder with a paint bucket that leaves him in dire need of a quick clean up. Across the street is Grace’s salon, and with no choice, Charles has to alter his routine for the first time in years.
Charlie and Grace don’t work on paper, but they find that maybe what they had thought they wanted was really what they needed after all. To make it work, Charlie will first have to his past behind him and Grace will have to finally open herself up to the possibility of love. Only together will they find the happy future they both long to achieve.