Released: 2011
Drama, Comedy
Director: Glenn Ficarra, John Requa
Starring: Steve Carell, Julianne Moore, Ryan Gosling
Running Time: 118 minutes
Rated: PG-13
The breakdown: A middle-aged man has a huge upheaval of his happy life when his wife of 25 years asks for a divorce. He immediately moves out and into his own apartment, trying to adjust to his new single and lonely life.
In a bar he finds a Romeo who seems to go home with a different woman each night. One day the Romeo approaches him and asks if he wants to learn how to do what he does and he agrees. The middle of the movie shows the friendship that develops between them and the newly single man learning about himself and growing. There's also a couple of sub stories involving romance in all it's various states.
Overall, I wasn't expecting much, and when I do that I am completely open to allowing the movie to be whatever it is. This wasn't a fantastic movie, but it wasn't terrible either. It had it's cute, touching moments, and others made me smile so if you were interested at all in seeing it, I say, go ahead and see it.
3 out of 5 for being cute enough for me to like it overall.
PS the girl who plays Jessica in this is actually someone I recognized from Cycle 11 of America's Next Top Model. For her being a former model wanna' be, she's actually a pretty decent actress, so kudos to her.
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