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  • Starring: Chris Messina, Jennifer Westfeldt
  • Summary: Ira and Abby is a sweet, hilarious, and slightly subversive romantic comedy. It examines the issues of marriage, monogamy, and whether "I do" is the only path to lifelong love and happiness. Ira Black is brilliant, neurotic, Jewish, and has so many issues he can't fit them into 12 years of analysis. Abby Willoughby is a free spirit who works in a gym and is better at solving her friends' problems than selling memberships. When the two meet, the impossible happens: They fall in love, meet each other's parents, and decide to get married--all in a few breathless hours. And life is good--for a while--until a series of comic misadventures (multiple divorces, in-laws, affairs, exes, and too many therapists) force the couple to rethink their strategies. (Magnolia Pictures) Expand
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 15
  2. Negative: 1 out of 15
  1. 80
    Not only delightfully funny but unaffectedly romantic.
  2. 50
    Neurotic New Yorkers, messed up relationships, inept analysts, infidelity -- Ira & Abby has them all, and it's anything but refreshing to trudge through this well-worn territory again.
  3. 38
    A stale rehash of Woody Allen-style "he's a neurotic Jew, she's a flaky shiksa" gags.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 3
  2. Negative: 1 out of 3
  1. JanschieDavie
    7
    Preposterous start that steers into realms of sitcom reality as the movie progresses. The cast is winsome although without any deep believability or motivational foundation. It is too long at the start and too short at the end. Yet, it has something that connects in an over-the-top way. Not for everyone. Maybe for lonely hearts looking for answers without answers. Expand
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  2. jayb
    5
    Terrific cast and some winning performances, but this movie fails to entertain because of sometimes-inept dialog and a confused plot that strains credulity way past the breaking point and finally lurches to a completely unconvincing and unsatisfying halt. Expand
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  3. KenG
    3
    A wanna-be Woody Allen type movie, but maybe only Woody Allen, can do "Woody Allen" well. Just not funny, witty clever, or insightful enough to make it worthwhile. And neither of the leads are all that good. The male lead in particular, seems miscast. Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes

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