Hope Davis as Erin is beautiful, sad, unfulfilled, recently dumped by her clueless socialist live-in boyfriend, and coping with the memory of her beloved father while living in the shadow of her overbearing mother. She smokes, she drinks, she's quick with a sarcastic one-liner. And, naturally, she's looking for love.
Alan Gelfant as Alan is pensive, rugged, ambitious, sensitive, dedicated to his budding career as a marine biologist, and coping with his father's failings while living in the shadow of his successful attorney brother. He smokes, he drinks, he's quick with a sarcastic one-liner. And, naturally, he's looking for love.
Erin and Alan are "perfect" for one another, so naturally, they keep missing opportunities to meet and fall in love. Isn't life ironic?
Here's another "quirky" attempt to cash in on the "Sleepless in Seattle" scenario (say that seven times fast) by having two "made for each other" characters walking the same streets, leading parallel lives, looking unsuccessfully for love, but only meeting at the end, and then only by happenstance. This one is a slight notch above last year's abysmally unfunny and uninvolving "Til There Was You", but only because the dialogue's a little better and the main characters aren't quite so cloying and uncharismatic (or in Dylan McDermott's case, plain unlikeable). Otherwise, this one is just as uninvolving, but as usual we get plenty of by-now cliché insights into the perennial difficulties of finding the right one in an urban environment populated with literally millions of wrong ones.
We young urban singles get the point, and so does everyone else. Our romantic struggles are not that interesting as entertainment. Can we move it along now?
Alan Gelfant as Alan is pensive, rugged, ambitious, sensitive, dedicated to his budding career as a marine biologist, and coping with his father's failings while living in the shadow of his successful attorney brother. He smokes, he drinks, he's quick with a sarcastic one-liner. And, naturally, he's looking for love.
Erin and Alan are "perfect" for one another, so naturally, they keep missing opportunities to meet and fall in love. Isn't life ironic?
Here's another "quirky" attempt to cash in on the "Sleepless in Seattle" scenario (say that seven times fast) by having two "made for each other" characters walking the same streets, leading parallel lives, looking unsuccessfully for love, but only meeting at the end, and then only by happenstance. This one is a slight notch above last year's abysmally unfunny and uninvolving "Til There Was You", but only because the dialogue's a little better and the main characters aren't quite so cloying and uncharismatic (or in Dylan McDermott's case, plain unlikeable). Otherwise, this one is just as uninvolving, but as usual we get plenty of by-now cliché insights into the perennial difficulties of finding the right one in an urban environment populated with literally millions of wrong ones.
We young urban singles get the point, and so does everyone else. Our romantic struggles are not that interesting as entertainment. Can we move it along now?