Writer-director Adam Brooks' "romantic mystery" uses a premise and a story structure suspiciously similar to that of the flashback-filled sitcom
How I Met Your Mother, but it's a lot fresher and bit more sophisticated than the ordinary run of maudlin chick flicks and crude gross-out sex farces that now pass for romantic comedies.
On the same day jaded Manhattan ad exec Will Hayes (Ryan Reynolds) receives the divorce papers from his wife's lawyer, his 10-year-old daughter, Maya (Abigail Breslin), has had her first sex-ed class at school, and is bursting with questions: Why do people have sexual intercourse if they don't want a baby? Did you have sex w...
Released:
2008
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
105 mins