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Generally favorable reviews- based on 62 Ratings

  • Starring: Dennis Quaid, Scarlett Johansson, Topher Grace
  • Summary: A very human story of the unlikely relationship between two men who find their satisfying, status quo existences disrupted by the startling truth that they no longer have any control over both the professional and personal sides of their lives. (Universal)
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 31 out of 40
  2. Negative: 0 out of 40
  1. 88
    Fresh comic thinking spices up this smart cookie of a satire from director-writer Paul Weitz (About a Boy). He makes it sexually provocative and subversively hilarious.
  2. The film is ultimately so extraordinary because it deals with something so ordinary: the desire to be better than we are, without knowing how to do it.
  3. Reviewed by: Olly Richards
    80
    Clever, original and terrifically witty.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 34 out of 43
  2. Negative: 6 out of 43
  1. MathiasC.
    8
    Come on, this is a sweet film, and its message that it shouldn't always be about the money is refreshing during these increasingly self-centered, cut-throat times. Let's call it "The Graduate" meets "Father Knows Best," and you'll be getting the right idea. All said, it's a warm tale that deserved better praise, a nice tonic after viewing "Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room," not to mention the president's State of the Union address, for that matter. Expand
  2. Josh
    2
    This film is terrible. Normally a chick flick like this has a possible happy ending, this ending though just makes no sense. The only reason it gets a vote is because Scarlet Johansson is so fit, though does sound like a man. Expand

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