Watched on a flight and thought it was a delightful romantic comedy. It leaves things a little up in the air which for some reason really works for this film. Fun and light...a good time, but don't think about it too much.
Good God is it over yet
Alice (portrayed by Reese Witherspoon) is a single mother of two children. She works as a interior designer and is the daughter of a famous moive director (who died). She just moved back to Los Angeles, after living with her former husband in New York.
On her 40th birthday she meets 3 young guys (~20 years old) in a bar, who are on the lookout for someone producing their movie (those three being in the roles of writer, director and main actor). The director starts flirting with her and they end up in bed with each other, while the other two crashed at her living room. The next morning the mother of Alice comes home and is shocked at first, but the 3 guys reckognise her as a famous actress (she played in the movies of her husband, i.e. the late father of Alice) so she is intrigued and offers the guys to live with Alice, building up to a strange love triangle story - and if that isn't enough: now her ex husband moves back to L.A. as well, and starts fighting for Alice.
After long useless scenes, Alice quits her job that doesn't make her happy, finalizes her divorce, breaks up her affair with the young director guy, but still everybody is happy and she has the best time while inviting them all to dine with her. The End.
As if this movie isn't enough by itself - it is accompanied by a ugly, suggary oozing soundtrack - one of the worse I have ever heard. Only one theme, that is used over and over again, over the entire movie. The actors are all overacting, the three guys are some of the worst actors I've seen, the story is totally foreseeable, and the directing is so incredible stupid. I mean do they really think we are so stupid as to not understand what is going on?
Let me give you an example - there is a scene, where you can see (due to the good acting of Reese Witherspoon): "Oh, there's something going on here. There is chemistry between those two". However, the camera keeps on capturing the scene. Witherspoon has to smile bashfully for 2 or 3 times until you think "Okey, now, finally, everybody should have gotten that there is chemistry between those two". But still - it's not enough. She then has to whisper "Oh my god" and start fanning herself. 5 Minutes to tell something that everyone in the audience whould have understood in half a minute.
Only because I really like Reese Witherspoon, I will give it 2 Points. And I am not the only one that was unimpressed. Even a lot of girls in the cinema bursted into laughs because of some of the horrible acted scenes.
I thought, WOW there's no way Reese Witherspoon can play a 40-year-old (at least, she doesn't look it, haha!), but she was amazing. And George was so sweet <3
It's a stretch calling this a romantic comedy, because it's not remotely funny, and the romance in it isn't well done either. That being what it is, it's also not a good story and despite being easy to watch, you find yourself waiting for it to end. Not a good movie, not remotely.
It's a light tone movie. I expected it to be like that so I knew what I signed up for. The three young actors did well and it's always nice watching Reese portraying a single mother that is coming out of a failed marriage but ready to start over. I do like the concept of unpredictable encounters that can add up some value to your life or just make you conscious of what you have and be grateful for it.
Nothing extraordinary about this movie. Good cast, some interesting up and coming young actors. I read a review that said this was the best Reese Witherspoon movie yet. I disagree, she has had better parts, but i think she always does a good job. I give it a 6 (fair) out of 10. [Light fare, Romantic Comedy]
I didnt like any of the characters and the acting was subpar. How Reese can go from Big Little Lies to this boggles the mind.
This isn't your typical rom-com but in the end I think that was better. It was all a bit odd and all over the same for a romance and it had me seriously wondering where they could possibly go with this that wouldn't be a bad ending. And in the end, the idea of making bonds, creating a "family" without the romance was really the best ending you could possibly have. Any other would have ended in heartbreak somewhere. But they come together without the need for the romance and it seemed more natural that way. And I liked that they included the father in the end, because if they divorce he can still be a great dad and still be a part of the family. So, it ended well, but it was still quite a mess getting there.
Not a bad movie. The acting was good, the soundtrack a bit weird but fine. Story was… well… I did expect a bit more, but it was cute. Nice for a bored evening.
A more than capable cast are wasted in this mere piffle of a movie. Dumb script, dumb dialogue, dumb everything. Meh!
An above average romantic movie, with some jokes :)
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The guy who played Harry came across sooooo sleazy at times. He made me super uncomfortable.
In a way I feel the romantic aspect was wholly unnecesary. Reese's interactions with the other two guys felt so much more natural and heartfelt. That scene where they all went to her room to warn her about her ex was so funny and sweet!
Also, the eldest daughter continuously sounded like she was reading from a script. Which was not very good, considering the high caliber of young actors taking over in movies and TV shows nowadays.
Still, overall it was a nice, chill movie.