SOUDERTON – Making its worldwide debut at the Montgomery Theater, Miles and Ellie combined a heartwarming love story with hilarious dialogue to tell a classic tale of high school sweethearts getting a second chance at their first love.

Ellie Thompson, played by Rachel Brennan, narrates the play as it weaves in and out of her real thoughts of her less-than-tasteful older sister Illyana, always-campaigning political father, and excessively doting mother. Enter Miles: a young delinquent with crazy hair, who, after working on the well known “baby flour sack” assignment, falls in love with Ellie and she with him.

Their back and forth banter was always hilarious, taking the audience in a different direction with every joke. While Miles, played by Sean Close, might have fallen short on a few punch lines, he made up for it with spot-on physicality during his comic moments.

But, the comedic gem of the show had to be Ellie’s father Burt, played by Tom Teti. By the end of each line, Burt had turned whatever he was saying into a practice political speech, usually degrading Democrats and all they stand for. Because his accusations became more randomly radical as the play progressed, the audience had no idea what to truly expect to fly out of his mouth.

After the romance fizzled between Ellie and Miles, we return to the present: Ellie returns home after a bitter marriage and divorce, her parents not letting go of what had happened. The chemistry between Ellie and Miles sparks once again when they meet after 18 years of not seeing each other; however, the time it takes for them to realize how they feel still and act on it dragged until the final line, which sadly was much too predictable and corny.

Miles and Ellie, opening at the Montgomery Theater to a packed house and closing to a standing ovation, shows the capability of two lost people to find their way back to each other amid family troubles and conflicts.