Not much to laugh about — or shout about for that matter. After a promising start, Rob Reiner's downbeat romantic comedy about a mixed-up journalist who suspects her late mother's and grandmother's dalliances with the same young man inspired THE GRADUATE grows steadily strange and uncomfortably distasteful. Sarah Huttinger (Jennifer Aniston) and her fiance, Jeff (Mark Ruffalo), are headed to Pasadena, Calif., for the wedding of Sarah's helium-headed younger sister (Mena Suvari) and as is always the case whenever Sarah goes home, she's a wreck. It's not just that she feels out of place in Goldwater country and shares nothing in common with her Republican father (...
Released:
2005
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
96 mins