20 Recent Movie Plot Twists NOBODY Saw Coming

Celine Song's Materialists was marketed as a relatively breezy romantic dramedy, and so few were expecting it to be quite so weird.

Matchmaker Lucy (Dakota Johnson) spends the film pulled between the romantic interest of her working class ex John (Chris Evans) and the slick, suave, wealthy Harry (Pedro Pascal).

In many respects Harry seems too good to be true - he's handsome, rich, and charming as hell, ensuring he could offer Lucy one hell of a sweet life.

And then the mid-film twist drops, that Harry isn't quite so perfect - or rather, he wasn't born that way anyway.

Lucy notices a scar on Harry's leg, before he reveals that he's had leg-lengthening surgery to add six inches to his height, to the eye-watering cost of $200,000.

Harry insists that this changed his life for the better, and though it doesn't change how Lucy feels about him, it does make her realise that she viewed him less as a love interest than a box-checking exercise, prompting them to break up.

It's a twist that tap-dances on the fringes of absurdity, though considering the surgery is very much real and has been on the rise in the last five years, the film can just about get away with it.