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Fans looking for a good cry are probably getting excited about the impending release of It Ends with Us. Following multiple delays, the adaptation of the hit Colleen Hoover novel promises to have us all feeling some kind of way by the end. The cast of It Ends with Us looks poised to deliver the emotional tale when we finally see it this August.

It Ends with Us stars Blake Lively as Lily, a young woman who finds herself stuck in the same abusive cycle she witnessed between her father and mother years before. The supporting cast is full of actors with loads of experience delivering laughs and tears on stage and screen.

The cast of It Ends with Us is:

• Blake Lively as Lilly Bloom
• Isabela Ferrer as Young Lily
• Justin Baldoni as Ryle Kincaid
• Brandon Sklenar as Atlas Corrigan
• Alex Neustaedter as Young Atlas
• Jenny Slate as Allysa
• Hasan Minhaj as Marshall
• Amy Morton as Jenny

Blake Lively leads the cast and has been a Hollywood fixture since 2005’s The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants. Justin Baldoni, perhaps best known for his role as Rafael Solano in Jane the Virgin, not only stars as Lily’s abusive husband Ryle, but he also is directing the movie. Meanwhile, Brandon Sklenar has become well-known to fans of Yellowstone prequel 1923, where he plays Spencer Dutton.

After multiple delays, It Ends with Us is set to finally be released on August 9, 2024 and promises to give fans who go see it the chance to have a good, cathartic cry in the cinema.

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