The greatest movie ever made..!

Let's be realistic.

I really wanted to like this movie. I feel terribly cynical trashing it, and that's why I'm giving it a middling 5. Actually, I'm giving it a 5 because there were some superb performances.

Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.

Alice is a single mother of independent means (her late father was an acclaimed film director) living in LA with her two daughters. After a drunk birthday celebration, she ends up with three young filmmakers taking up residence in her guest house. She enters into a sexual relationship with Harry, and the girls get on with all 3 young men. Then husband Austen arrives, looking to reconcile. Meanwhile daughter Isabel is looking for reassurance over a school drama project.This is a very slight entry in the rom-com-ish area, characterised by being quite amiable, but not particularly romantic, and not particularly comedic either. Reese Witherspoon and Michael Sheen have both done better and will no doubt do better in the future. Candice Bergen puts in a good-natured but largely unnecessary cameo as Alice's mom, pausing for a couple of one-liners on her way to collect her paycheck. The 3 lads are all fairly forgettable. Lola Flanery makes an impression as Isabel.The one thing I did like about this film is that one gets used to the romcom formula, and that formula dictated that either the Alice/Austen reconciliation would work out, or else the generation difference romance would work out. So kudos to this film for confounding my expectations in that direction.

This movie does not treat you with mysteries and depths of reality. It gives you plain and simple entertainment during its run time. You can just sit back , relax ,chill and watch the movie. No brainstorming activities just light comedy plus romance which is I feel identical if you are tired and just searching to divert your mind to something else pretty simple.

I always love Reese in anything, even though this was a little smarmy. Beacause Reese was in this it gave this movie something worthy to watch. I am glad I did. I like a good fun movie in the afternoon. I laughed, I cried, I liked it a lot. The three young men are charming, handsome and sexy in their own way. Nothing my hubby would watch, but I am allowed some fun for me. Yay! Now if I can just find another charming movie to see on my free afternoon.

As I watched this movie I wanted to like it more and more but it kept letting me down. It was okay and light hearted