10 April 2012
Neither Reese Witherspoon nor Paul Rudd, Owen Wilson, to say nothing of Jack Nicholson, is able to transcend the woodenness of the characters they play in James L Brooks's rom-com.
Witherspoon plays a softball international, now retired and wondering what to do with herself apart from bedding Wilson's millionaire baseball pitcher and keeping Rudd's troubled businessman on a hook. The businessman's father (Nicholson) is in trouble for bribery on a massive scale and he is blamed. Nicholson has a few good moments but that's in a screenplay that has about one laugh per half hour.
How Do You Know
Cert: 12A
