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How Do You Know

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5.3/10 • 959

2010-12-172h 1m

ComedyDramaRomance

How do you know it's love?

After being cut from the USA softball team and feeling a bit past her prime, Lisa finds herself evaluating her life and in the middle of a love triangle, as a corporate guy in crisis competes with her current, baseball-playing beau.

Directors
James L. Brooks
Writters
James L. Brooks
Editors
James L. Brooks, Tracey Wadmore-Smith

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  1. Reese Witherspoon

    Reese Witherspoon

    Lisa Jorgenson

  2. Paul Rudd

    Paul Rudd

    George

  3. Owen Wilson

    Owen Wilson

    Manny

  4. Jack Nicholson

    Jack Nicholson

    Charles

  5. Kathryn Hahn

    Kathryn Hahn

    Annie

  6. Molly Price

    Molly Price

    Coach Sally

  7. Shelley Conn

    Shelley Conn

    Terry

  8. Tony Shalhoub

    Tony Shalhoub

    Psychiatrist

  9. Mark Linn-Baker

    Mark Linn-Baker

    Ron

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Kamurai

Jul 22, 2020

4/10

Boring watch, won't watch again, and can't recommend. Paul Rudd (especially) and Jack Nicholson are actors I would use as a barometer for movie quality, and even Reese Witherspoon (even though I'm not a big fan) usually is in quality movies, but this is just such a dud. It's the rom com equivalent to watching paint dry. Everything about it draws enormous attention to what you would expect to be happening and not doing it. Trust me, I understand that subversion of expectation is comedy, but there is a rate of diminishing returns on the repetition and duration of the joke, and if you play with that line, then you're writing a comedy for comedy writers because they are the only ones that are going to look at the movie / life as a punchline, and I don't think that is what they were going for. There is an underlying theme of patience and adaptability: life will even out even in the roughest of situations, but the movie just sort of stops without even an epilogue, they're just literally and suddenly not there anymore. I think there is a lot to get out of the movie, if you're strong enough to reach for it: a man who has everything but doesn't give you what you need isn't as good a man who has almost nothing and wants to give you what you need. It's a counter argument to "Nice guys finish last". Please don't waste your time, go watch anything else Paul Rudd has been in except for the one where he buys a French villa.

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Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
$120,000,000.00
Revenue
$48,668,907.00
Keywords
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