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It's funny watching the elements come together in this complicated scam. On one hand, the set-up isn't quite as complex as it seems, but there's an easy sense of fun in every exchange.

Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,

Your enjoyment level with this movie will depend on two things.1. Your appreciation of the lovely Laura Linney.2. Your ability to appreciate individual elements that are quite good but don't come together to make a good film.Louise Harrington (Laura Linney) is the director of admissions for the art program at Columbia University. She's 39 years old and divorced, but knows she's still attractive. Her ex-husband Peter (Gabriel Byrne) is a Columbia professor. They were married for ten years and now have one of those divorcée relationships that are supposed to be mature but are really just unhealthy. They have lunch together on campus and have regular dinners at each other's homes. Essentially, they're one of these couples who get divorced but then continue to carry on with about 80% of their married life together. Louise also has a larger-than-life best friend named Missy (Marcia Gay Harden) who lives across the country with her rich husband and scandalizes Louise with phone calls about lusting after the pool boy.One day, after rejecting a series of applicants, she's stopped short by a letter. It's from a young man named F. Scott Feinstadt (Topher Grace) and Louise is completely taken aback by it. Even though his application isn't complete, she invites him for an interview and rather aggressively seduces him. It seems that Louise's high school boyfriend was named Scott Feinstadt. She loved him and then he died and now Louise is caught up with the wild idea her great love has returned to her. As you might guess, a budding romance between a woman and a young man she's thinks might be her dead boyfriend runs into a few snags. Louise also has to deal with a revelation from Peter that abnormally disturbs her and a simmering conflict with her recovering addict brother (Paul Rudd) before F. Scott finally finds out why Louise took a fancy to him.There are a lot of things about this movie that work on their own but when they try to put them all together, it really doesn't click.Laura Linney is splendid, as always, but she's playing facets of a character instead of a whole woman. At times she's wrapped up in a fantasy. Other times, she's got a very cold-blooded grip on reality. Sometimes she's very much in command and others she's very much affected by so many things. For a woman to so quickly and so strongly latch onto the "my dead boyfriend's come back to me" thing, she's got to be very sad and lonely and unhappy and a little pathetic. Linney tries all she can to convey all of that, but she's hampered by a story that doesn't understand or doesn't want to admit how messed up Louise must be.Topher Grace looks and feels a little too old for this role, but his performance of a young artist is spot on. He plays him as genuinely young, with a fragile sense of himself and an unsettled relationship to the world.The only unconvincing acting job of the movie is Marcia Gay Harden's, and I'm not sure it's her fault at all. Missy is less a character and more a living deus ex machina. Missy exists to facilitate the ending of this story, which means her behavior doesn't make sense as a human being but only as a servant of the Almighty Plot Hammer.There are also two things about this story that are just too cute. For one, we're never really told the whole story about Louise and her high school boyfriend. Certain things are implied and we're clearly meant to assume that it was this great and wonderful love story. But then toward the end of the movie, we're told that it was much more mundane and common and even tawdry. It's like the movie plays a trick by letting you believe in this romantic fantasy and then dumps a bucket of cold water on you. The second problem is that the whole "he's her dead high school boyfriend" thing just sort of goes away in the middle of the film. It's ignored and we get about 30 minutes of a perfectly conventional story about an older woman infatuated with a younger man but still conflicted about his youth. We also get the stuff with Peter, which seems very contrived, and the stuff with Louise's brother, which only makes sense when the movie beats us over the head with what it's supposed to mean later on.If you're a Laura Linney fan, she's just as good here as in her other films. A lot of those other films, however, are much better than this.

With a killer cast, and a simple threaded plot this tale of discovery and rediscovery of love and the feeling that first love bring back are weaved here together with humor and passion.While not wholly successful - the drama elements rely too heavily on the sexual, Gabriel Byrne's character was sold short I would say - as a concept it is immensely charming, captivating, poignant, and darn funny.We thought it successful in its attempt to portray a different kind of relationship - and loved the main characters. It has more bite than most romantic films - and that is no bad thing.Would warmly recommend to those who like their romantic film to involve both the heart and the brain.

As one in a May/September romance of sorts, I expected to like this one. And I did...but only marginally. Linney's character was not strong enough to pull this one off. Also, I found that this movie thought it was being clever, when in actuality, it was out-thinking itself. It also takes itself quite seriously in its post traumatic stress disorder, shining a search light on nothing, leading the audience to nowhere, and finding its way straight into ambiguity. In five years, this work will not be remembered, and that is not a loss to the cinematic world, believe me.This work was muddled, uneven, and trite.It rates a 4.6/10 from...the Fiend :.

i just stumbled across this movie while i was looking for another movie and thought i would read what it is about and I read the plot or the out line of this movie, haven't seen this movie as such but in reading the outline of the movie, it sounds very similar to the 80s movie 'chances are' with Cybill Sheppard which i must say is better. but thats only going on what i read. i still need to see it. it sound like a remake with unknown actors. which is probably why it didn't come out at the movies or even got a mention. Not sure i would bother renting it out to see it doesn't sound like something i would enjoy. but i guess if you like the romantic stuff and like watching not so good remakes then you might just like this movie. but i suggest u watch 'chances are' you probably end up agreeing with me in saying that chances are is better.