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Perfect cast and a good story

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

It is a whirlwind of delight --- attractive actors, stunning couture, spectacular sets and outrageous parties. It's a feast for the eyes. But what really makes this dramedy work is the acting.

Is there something wrong with all of us??! I mean, why we can't see how see this movie coming? Its under the radar and very very Underrated. It's broke my heart to find out that this movie only gain under $ 4 Million on theater. It's instant classic and easily become my all time favorite. A beautiful heart warming movie that will make you want to fall in love again. Please buy the DVD or watch it online to appreciate this movie.

In 2002, college student Jake (Jason Sudeikis) finds Lainey (Alison Brie) yelling for Matthew (Adam Scott) in the hallway. Jake and Lainey end up losing their virginity to each other. In the present day, the two run into each other in a sex addiction support group. They haven't seen each other since that night. Jake sleeps with inappropriate women rather than maturely breaking up his failed relationships. Lainey has been in an on-and-off affair with Matthew even after his marriage to Emma. Jake and his best friend Xander cash out by selling their business to a big company. Quickly, Jake is flirting with the company lawyer Paula (Amanda Peet). Jake and Lainey have a platonic relationship but their romance is never far below the surface.This hits on similar terrain as When Harry met Sally. Sudeikis and Brie have some slightly irreverent brand of humor but it's never completely edgy. They seem well matched. The missing element is the uncontrollable heat. Sudeikis is a little too standoffish and always joking around. There seems to be good possibilities with these two but it fails to land that knockout punch.

The subject of sex addiction is a new one, at least in indie filmmaking, and it was terribly explored in the 2012 film "Thanks for Sharing." With a much funnier cast assembled, and a solid screenplay to boot, the romantic coupling of Jason Suidekis and Alison Brie is one of the best in recent years. Much of the film's success is owed to writer and director Leslye Headland, who also helmed the 2012 comedy "Bachelorette." The film is produced by Will Ferrell and Adam McKay, who have been taking more chances on obscure indie comedies. Though this isn't the best rom-com of last year it has flawless chemistry between its leads and includes bawdy humor that impresses and intrigues.The film starts in much the same way as "When Harry Met Sally," with Lainey (Brie) meeting Jake (Sudeikis) in a dorm hallway, where Lainey is pounding on someone's door. It turns out that she is trying to find her TA (Scott) to lose her virginity to. Jake and Lainey end up having one night stand, and don't see each other until they meet at a Love Addicts group in New York. Not wanting to risk any new relationships on having a sexual fling, they become platonic friends who give each other advice on their dating lives. Lainey apparently did meet up with that TA, and he is now a married man with a baby on the way. Jake is newly obsessed with his current boss, played by Amanda Peet. The problems of the characters aren't anything new, but their chemistry and constant support of one another make the film both introspective and endearingly funny.Like in "Thanks for Sharing," sex addiction doesn't actually get explored as well as it could. In that film we follow three different couples all grappling with sex addiction, and each story isn't given enough time to be explored, which makes the film meandering and needless. This film kind of peters out on its main theme (though it's about love addiction not sex addiction) immediately, in order to explore the characters and really focus on their relationship rather than making this a social issue film. Love addiction doesn't seem like it makes sense as the film's major theme, because Jake doesn't seem to love anyone but himself, and Lainey cheats on her only love interest.The film stresses that these two people have not had any healthy relationships since their one night stand thirteen years prior. While it's admirable to include love, or sex addiction, as your theme, it's not needed here. These two people are complex and funny without the need for adding contemporary themes and complicating the plot.

The rom-com: a genre where (with preciously few exceptions) clichés used to go to die. Now, rom-coms are on the verge of being killed off themselves, their target demographic increasingly flocking to teen-lit adaptations like Divergent or whatever Third Next Best Greatest Marigold Hotel sequel hits theatres. Its unlikely resuscitation? Evolving from rom-com to raunch-com. Folks like Amy Schumer and Judd Apatow have hit pay dirt gunning for a late twenties/thirties, more sex-savvy audience, who, in the commitment-phobic epoch of divorce epidemics, tinder nightmares, and 'how to date squashed by lifelong student debt,' could probably use reassuring of the existence of feasible love more than anyone. Their latest drinking buddy, and arguably crown jewel of the lot? Leslye Headland's Sleeping With Other People. I know - on paper, it looks like a relic from the unbearably daft days of Ashton Kutcher etc. But damned if it isn't one of the sharpest, most observant and genuine, sweet, sexy, and - yes - outrageously funny films to grace theatres in years. Yes, really.Headland certainly learned from the best. In fact, if there's one major bone to pick with Sleeping With Other People, it's that it models itself after When Harry Met Sally to such an extent that it verges on plagiarism. But the comparison isn't unwarranted. Headland has a genius ear for crafting situations and dialogue that, in short, feel real, insightfully teasing out the wrinkles of contemporary dating culture with a refreshingly frank, rough-and-tumble honesty. Characters swear, have (lots of) sex, get stoned, and are simultaneously enormously charming and unforgivable assholes in the same breath. Friends sustain successful, happy marriages (gasp!), while our leads have panic attack-induced bathroom pukes without it feeling gratuitous, and are well-drawn enough that they can reunite at a sex-addicts meeting years after a college hookup without it feeling like a plot device. There's such a snappy naturalism to Headland's banter and our heroes' self-imposed friendship that the sweetness settling in feels like providence. Even the saccharine levels - the genre's greatest vice - are largely kept carefully under control. Although we can never quite decide if we want them to get together (let alone if it's a good idea ), it's impossible not to root for them throughout. A major cliché-combatting factor is the fact that Headland crafts a world of real consequences. When lovable assholes push their partners too far, no matter how timeless the Hollywood speech they conjure up, their partners push back - sometimes literally, and into traffic to boot. The film's most gratuitous Hollywood moment - a heartwarmingly affirming brunch brawl - leads to an arrest and extensive litigation which consumes a sizeable chunk of the film. With this in mind, it becomes genuinely hard to predict what will befall our irrepressible leads, and Headland's teasing out of the discrepancy between passion and contentment makes it a real struggle to decide which is a better call. And this only makes us all the more invested in our adorably, beautifully flawed characters, as they fumble towards making sense of life, sex, and love, all while spouting Headland's hysterically quotable dialogue, and capture our hearts like nobody's business. It helps that Alison Brie and Jason Sudeikis - both patiently awaiting their chance to shine on the big screen outside of TV excellence and forgettable Hollywood dross - are the new comedy pairing to beat. They're both outrageously charming, and share such a superbly witty, nonchalant chemistry that the screen practically sparkles as they exchange jovial put-downs, cheerily straightforward flirtation, The Graduate and Steven King references, and masturbation tips (you could groan - or cheer - at the number of times Brie shows up in lingerie, but you'll likely be too busy laughing at her irrepressible goofiness). Both have their defining character flaws - she's warped from being strung along by her college booty call (the excellent Adam Scott, magnetically powerful in being so dull); he routinely destroys relationships to avoid having to face up to his pickiness, and the film finds balance in their sombre beats. Still, they're clever enough to remain charismatic and organic throughout, and my goodness are they lovable. Backing them, Jason Mantzoukas and Margaret Odette are flat-out hysterical as the requisite married friends ("I miss drugs" and "My love is conditional!" may be the film's funniest one-liners), and are so entertaining riffing whimsically over the film's credits that we'd happily have them never end. Finally, Amanda Peet breathes life and genuineness into the 'prissy hot boss' cliché, while Adam Brody is unexpectedly golden as Brie's flamboyantly 'mansplaining' ex. 'Diamond in the rough' amidst the seas of less worthy Hollywood sex/rom-coms, Sleeping With Other People is, amazingly, only Headland's second feature film, after 2012's Bachelorette. But, after such a sincere and savagely funny sophomore effort, I'll definitely have more of what she's having. Mousetrap. -9/10