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Amazon.co.uk Review
Compared to previous James L. Brooks dramedies, like As Good As It Gets, How Do You Know feels slight, but it still marks an improvement over the ill-conceived Spanglish. The setup begins with a newly minted couple and a brand-new single. Lisa (Reese Witherspoon), a pro softball player, dates Matty (Owen Wilson), a major-league pitcher, who lives in the same Washington, D.C., high rise as financial exec Charles (Jack Nicholson, looking ill at ease), whose son and employee, George (Paul Rudd), gets the boot from his girlfriend after he loses his job. When George meets Lisa, who didn't make the team, sparks fly, but she's unavailable, so they get on with their lives. Hardly the brightest bulb, Matty raises Lisa's spirits with his goofy antics, so she moves in with him. Then George finds out he faces charges for tax fraud, even though he broke no laws. While his pregnant assistant, Annie (Crossing Jordan's Kathryn Hahn), supports him through the crisis, he can't stop thinking about the blonde from the elevator, so he tries to get to know Lisa better. Throughout the rest of this glossy entertainment, their friendship verges on romance, but Lisa stays with Matty, until Annie helps her to see George clearly for the first time. As love triangles go, Brooks isn't reinventing the wheel, making this underwritten affair one of his less inspired creations, but Witherspoon, Rudd, and Wilson are good company--even if the latter is essentially reprising his vacuous Zoolander character (just substitute baseball for modeling). --Kathleen C. Fennessy
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From director/writer James L. Brooks comes a humorous and romantic look at the "How Do You Know" question. When everything she's ever known is suddenly taken from her, Lisa (Reese Witherspoon) begins a fling with Matty (Owen Wilson), a major league baseball player and self-centered ladies man. Before their relationship takes off, Lisa meets up with George (Paul Rudd) a straight-arrow businessman facing his own serious issues, both with his father (Jack Nicholson) and the law. Just when everything seems to be falling apart it doesn't.
Special Features:
Special Features:
- Commentary with Filmmakers
- Select Scenes Commentary with James L. Brooks and Owen Wilson
- Deleted Scenes Commentary by James L. Brooks
- Blooper Reel
- Extra Innings
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
I went to see this at the cinema with my friend and came out thinking what was the plot in that film? There seemed to be know purpose at all it was dull!
My mum asked me what it was about and I couldn't explain simply because i couldn't remember!! We couldn't even remember the title, thats how big an impression it made on us!
Rubbish, don't buy.
My mum asked me what it was about and I couldn't explain simply because i couldn't remember!! We couldn't even remember the title, thats how big an impression it made on us!
Rubbish, don't buy.
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
I really liked all the actors in this film and just assumed it would be at least watchable if not better. However after a hour into the film it still felt like it had not gotten started, it was not funny, the characters are not likeable and I did not care what happened. The whole court case bit never really got resolved and it was utterly boring. If you really want to see it rent it or something but save your money.
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Seeing the trailer I was really excited to see this film. But i was very disappointed. The 4 main actors are great (nicholson, witherspoon, owen and rudd), the settings is nice but the story was boring and slow. The trailer was better than the movie. It's too bad because this film had great potential but it's too slow at time. I won't be buying it on dvd.
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