(S)ex List (What's Your Number?), a romantic comedy directed by Mark Mylod, lands on Netflix on September 30, 2026. Released in theaters in 2011, the film teams up Anna Faris and Chris Evans in a premise built around a seemingly arbitrary question: can the number of past lovers influence your chances of finding the right person?
Ally Darling is going through a rough patch. After yet another breakup and losing her job, she comes across a magazine article claiming that women who have had twenty or more partners are unlikely to marry. Realizing she’s just reached that very number, Ally decides not to date anyone new until she explores another possibility: reconnecting with her exes to see if she ever missed the one.
To pursue this emotional investigation, she enlists the help of Colin Shea, her neighbor who himself stacks up conquests and often seeks sanctuary with Ally to dodge his latest escapades. Played by Chris Evans, Colin accompanies Ally as she begins to piece together her memories with what her exes have actually become.
(S)ex List is based on the novel 20 Times a Lady by Karyn Bosnak, adapted for the screen by Gabrielle Allan and Jennifer Crittenden. Behind its rom-com premise, the film builds its plot around the standards that weigh on the heroine’s romantic and sexual life. The search for an old flame gradually becomes Ally’s way of questioning the criteria by which she judges her own life.
Facing Anna Faris and Chris Evans, a string of actors appear as the men Ally crosses paths with on this journey, among them Chris Pratt, Martin Freeman, Anthony Mackie, Zachary Quinto and Andy Samberg. Ari Graynor plays Daisy, Ally’s sister, whose upcoming wedding fuels her questions about her own life.
The film also predates several of the roles that would significantly raise the profiles of members of its cast in the years to come. Chris Evans appears in (S)ex List in the same year he becomes Steve Rogers in Captain America: The First Avenger, while Anthony Mackie would join him a few years later in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
(S)ex List will be available on Netflix starting September 30, 2026. The release invites viewers to revisit a romantic comedy that feels very much of the early 2010s, while its starting point also reflects the conversations and expectations around female sexuality that frame the journey of the film’s lead character.
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