2007 romantic comedy Rating: 11/20 (Jen: 17/20)
Plot: Dan, a newspaper advice columnist and single father of three daughters, falls in love with a woman he meets in a bookstore while visiting his family somewhere on either the East or West coast and finds out later that the woman is his brother's new girlfriend who the family then also falls in love with which makes things really awkward for Dan, a newspaper columnist and single father of three daughters. Things turn sinister when Dan goes batty and kills and eats his entire family and follows it up with a trip to the bowling alley. He bowls a 126, brags about his spare on the ninth frame, and plays Boys Don't Cry's "I Wanna Be a Cowboy" on the jukebox thirty-seven times.
A Sleepless in Seattle clone, but at least it's not a particularly offensive one. I did like Steve Carrell in this, but a lot of the sentiment was so cheap, and the cliches were piled on pretty thickly. Choppy and tidy. Predictable, almost funny cookie cutter stuff, but not a terrible way to pass a couple hours with a lovely somebody who smells a lot better than I do.
One smelly person/one non-smelly person:
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