Director James L. Brooks ( Terms of Endearment, The Simpson’s) returns to the helm with this ensemble comedy ’How Do You Know’ starring Reese Witherspoon, Jack Nicholson, Paul Rudd, and Owen Wilson. It centres on
A gold medallist softball player with a can do ultra positive way of looking at life, she is cut from her team at the ripe old age of 31. Everything she has ever known is suddenly taken from her.
Not knowing what to do, she stumbles toward regular life. In this mode, she begins a fling with Matty Reynolds (Wilson), a rich and famous major league baseball pitcher, a self-centered ladies man – a narcissist with a code of honor who she has little in common with. Lisa (Witherspoon) a woman whose athletic ability is the defining passion of her life, having been her focus since early childhood. However his vanity is offset by his sunny guilelessness and he offers great sex and good times?
Paul Rudd plays George, the straight-arrow businessman whose complicated relationship with his father, Charles (Nicholson), takes a turn when he is accused of a financial crime, even though he’s done nothing wrong. Though he may be headed to jail, George’s honesty, integrity, and unceasing optimism may be his only path to keeping his sanity.
Before Lisa’s relationship with Matty takes root, she meets George for a first date on the worst evening of each of their lives. She has just been cut, and he has just been served. When everything else seems to be falling apart, will they discover what it means to have something wonderful happen?Is she better off with George, a sweet but anxious business guy who, as the naïve target of a federal investigation into business shenanigans, is watching his life fall apart?
The best thing about this movie is Paul Rudd and Owen Wilson who make up the few laughs that make this film worth sitting through and Jack Nicholson is his usual charismatic self. However Reese Witherspoon who has performed well in her previous films (Legally Blonde, Sweet Home Alabama) fails in this film. She comes across whiny and annoying.
How Do You Know doesn't break any new ground in the romantic comedy genre, and some of the writing is suspect. With this A list cast you would expect this movie to be much better, instead it drags on, some scenes fall incredibly short. A number of which could have been cut and it would still make sense and probably be more enjoyable..
Its like watching three different movies that have no connection. The story line is very basic but there are some enjoyable comedy moments. Might do for a night in but I wouldn’t be queuing in the cold for this one.
A gold medallist softball player with a can do ultra positive way of looking at life, she is cut from her team at the ripe old age of 31. Everything she has ever known is suddenly taken from her.
Not knowing what to do, she stumbles toward regular life. In this mode, she begins a fling with Matty Reynolds (Wilson), a rich and famous major league baseball pitcher, a self-centered ladies man – a narcissist with a code of honor who she has little in common with. Lisa (Witherspoon) a woman whose athletic ability is the defining passion of her life, having been her focus since early childhood. However his vanity is offset by his sunny guilelessness and he offers great sex and good times?
Paul Rudd plays George, the straight-arrow businessman whose complicated relationship with his father, Charles (Nicholson), takes a turn when he is accused of a financial crime, even though he’s done nothing wrong. Though he may be headed to jail, George’s honesty, integrity, and unceasing optimism may be his only path to keeping his sanity.
Before Lisa’s relationship with Matty takes root, she meets George for a first date on the worst evening of each of their lives. She has just been cut, and he has just been served. When everything else seems to be falling apart, will they discover what it means to have something wonderful happen?Is she better off with George, a sweet but anxious business guy who, as the naïve target of a federal investigation into business shenanigans, is watching his life fall apart?
The best thing about this movie is Paul Rudd and Owen Wilson who make up the few laughs that make this film worth sitting through and Jack Nicholson is his usual charismatic self. However Reese Witherspoon who has performed well in her previous films (Legally Blonde, Sweet Home Alabama) fails in this film. She comes across whiny and annoying.
How Do You Know doesn't break any new ground in the romantic comedy genre, and some of the writing is suspect. With this A list cast you would expect this movie to be much better, instead it drags on, some scenes fall incredibly short. A number of which could have been cut and it would still make sense and probably be more enjoyable..
Its like watching three different movies that have no connection. The story line is very basic but there are some enjoyable comedy moments. Might do for a night in but I wouldn’t be queuing in the cold for this one.
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