"Office Romance" landed on Netflix in June 2026, an original studio rom-com rather than any connection to the 1977 Soviet classic "Sluzhebny Roman" (also translated "Office Romance"), despite sharing a title.
This version is a Netflix original built around Jennifer Lopez and runs one hour and fifty-five minutes, streaming exclusively through Netflix's standard and 4K tiers.
The premise centers on Jackie Cruz, president and CEO of a fictional airline called Air Cruz, who enforces a strict anti-fraternization policy for her staff. That policy is tested when a new company lawyer, Daniel Blanchflower, joins the firm. Jennifer Lopez plays Jackie opposite Brett Goldstein, who also co-wrote the screenplay. Ol Parker directs, continuing the string of adult-skewing travel-and-romance comedies he built with "Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again" and "Ticket to Paradise." Betty Gilpin, Edward James Olmos, Bradley Whitford, Amy Sedaris, Jodie Whittaker and Tony Hale round out the cast.
The pairing of Lopez and Goldstein is the film's clearest hook: Goldstein, known for the more restrained comic register of Roy Kent on "Ted Lasso," co-writes his own role opposite one of the biggest stars still making studio rom-coms on a regular basis. For a genre that studios have mostly abandoned outside streaming, having Ol Parker behind the camera gives it a specific, polished house style rather than a generic gloss.
This is for anyone who wants an old-fashioned, R-rated adult rom-com with a recognizable movie star at the center rather than a teen-skewing streaming comedy. It suits viewers who liked the workplace-power-dynamic setup of films like "The Proposal." It is not for anyone hoping for the Soviet-era film of the same name; that is a separate title with no relationship to this one.
