Brett Goldstein wrote himself into a romantic comedy and then signed on to play the man who upends its heroine: Office Romance, now streaming on Netflix in 2026, is a project Goldstein co-wrote and stars in opposite Jennifer Lopez.
Lopez has framed the film as a break from her usual screen self. "'Office Romance' is the first time I'm the boss," she told the streamer's outlet, insisting this Jackie Cruz is not the aspiring helper so often central to the genre. "I'm not playing someone with all these aspirations, who's the maid or the wedding planner working for the rich people," Lopez said. "Jackie built this company."
The movie leans on that inversion. Lopez plays Jackie Cruz, the CEO of AirCruz and the daughter of Captain Jack Cruz, who founded the airline. Brett Goldstein plays Daniel Blanchflower, the in-house attorney at Cruz Airlines who is drafted in to help Jackie with a lawsuit over gates at Dallas Forth Worth International Airport. They work together on the legal problem and, despite the company's strict no-dating policy, "sparks" develop between them.
Goldstein and Joe Kelly share writing credit on the film, which was directed by Ol Parker. The cast around them is stacked: Betty Gilpin, Tony Hale, Amy Sedaris and Bradley Whitford fill supporting roles. For Lopez, Office Romance marks a return to romantic comedy after a 2022 appearance in the genre; for Goldstein the film follows the goodwill he earned as a standout from Ted Lasso.
The hook is deliberate. Lopez has repeatedly emphasized that Jackie is autonomous and not waiting to be saved: "It's usually the woman who is hoping to be saved in romantic comedies," she said. "But that isn't the case at all here. Jackie is very powerful. She has her own life. She's not really looking for love. She's a very different kind of character for me to play." That makes the central friction sharper: Daniel's legal assistance is professional aid, but it crosses into personal territory because AirCruz explicitly forbids workplace romance.
That tension — a high-powered CEO who insists she is not seeking love, a conciliatory in-house lawyer, and a company rule that forbids their pairing — gives the film its engine. Goldstein's decision to both write and play the role of Daniel places him on the other side of a familiar rom-com formula: instead of rescuing Lopez's character, his character helps her solve a legal problem and then must reckon with what attraction looks like inside a corporate code of conduct.
Office Romance lands where Netflix wanted it: a crowd-pleasing crossover that reunites a rom-com titan and a television favorite while leaning into workplace rules as comic and dramatic pressure. The company has released the film as a Netflix original, and viewers can stream Office Romance on Netflix now in 2026. For fans of Lopez's reinventions and Goldstein's post-Ted Lasso moves, the film is the clearest signal yet that both performers are reshaping the parts they take in romantic comedy.
