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A romantic comedy that chronicles a chance meeting between Mike Cranshaw (Steve Zahn) and Sue Claussen (Jennifer Aniston). When Sue checks into the roadside motel owned by Mike's parents in Arizona,...  View more >

Starring Jennifer Aniston, Steve Zahn, Woody Harrelson

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Oct 14, 2009
This movie is a case of a group of talented actors getting together to do a movie with a screenplay and possibly a director that wasn't up to the task.

I like Steve Zahn in most of his movies. Jennifer Aniston is easy to watch and she has proven that she can act with the right material. Woody Harrelson can do what he does best in the right situation. Likewise with Fred Ward.

So, here we have a great set of actors, and the movie still doesn't come off as well as it could have. I would have to say that the responsibility falls on both the screenplay and the director. The screenplay has Zahn's character as a mix between a lost puppy and creepy stalker. Aniston's character shifts gears between being creeped out and touched by his sentiments and different approach to life from hers. The reason I think the director is somewhat responsible is that, even with the shortcomings of the screenplay, it often seems as though the right moment was never captured at the right time, kind of like a sports photographer that misses the shot by a half-second.

Most of all, it is Mike's creepiness that causes the problem. He's not a self-assured guy that looks at life very differently from Sue. He's a loser that has never grabbed life by the horns that happened to get lucky with the prettiest girl to ever walk in the front door of his parents' motel.

How is it that a sex scene can involve one of the principals never getting undressed? This is an R-rated movie, so there must have been some requirement on Aniston's part that she not disrobe at all for the scene.

What the audience is left with is a scene that is supposed to cement Mike's passion for Sue which causes him to jump through many hoops to be with her, but it's no more than a quickie that involved no passion or intimacy whatsoever. We're supposed to believe that Mike is such a loser that he can't even see it for what it was? That's a big stretch, and just distances his character from the audience.

Last but not least, Harrelson's Jango is a completely unnecessary character. Jango derails the movie with every scene, when the focus should have stayed on Mike and Sue.

In the end, it's all wrapped up in a neat package, seemingly because the filmmakers thought that's what the audience wanted. In contrast, the movie would have been better had the ending gone differently, but it's just the last of a series of missteps taken by the movie.

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