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Excellent, Without a doubt!!

This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

I found this one on Netflix streaming movies. Offbeat and different, I enjoyed most of it, but nothing is tied up at the end, all the issues are left hanging. I suppose that was the intent, maybe just to say now Laura for the first time in her life realizes fully what is going on around her and has a chance to deal with it. Or, maybe they just didn't know how to end it any other way.Jenna Fischer is Laura. She uses a very understated style for this character, plays her not necessarily as an unintelligent person, but maybe just a bit slow to organize her thoughts and realize what is going on. Like the scene where her son's teacher ends with "He was a real hero." Laura is just agreeing then after a few seconds realizes she has no idea what the "hero" comment meant. It turns out her son told everyone at school that his dad was a firefighter who died in 9/11 while saving people.In another scene her sister's husband ends up confessing to her that the main reason he married her sister was so he could remain in Laura's life, and she responded with a slight smile, "How's that working out for you?" (You had to be there.)Her husband is played, briefly, by Chris O'Donnell as Bob. Briefly because he dies early in the story, a heart irregularity. Now with him and his good job gone, and with little in the way of life insurance, we wonder if Laura will be able to maintain her life style on Long Island. So her sister eggs her on to hire a lawyer for a malpractice suit.Their son, 12-year-old Daniel Yelsky is Dennis. He is sort of a cute kid but a bit overweight and with a puffy face. He doesn't always tell the truth and isn't always respectful. He does a few things that get them in hot water with the friends and neighbors.One of the kids is an aspiring musician, and his dad surprises him by taking him to work at a radio station. The guest that day is Dion DiMucci (playing himself) and in addition to having a good part in the story itself, it brought back good memories for me, as Dion was one of the popular singers back in the 1960s and 1970s when I was young.In another blast from the past, the son of Bob Dylan, Jakob Dylan wrote the music and sang some of the songs for the movie, sounding not too much different from his dad all those years ago.So overall I liked the movie, especially Jenna Fischer. It is sort of her "coming of age" 20 years after high school

No real morality issue here, this is a story of people like Jenna Fisher ("The Office") who loses her husband (brief performance by Chris O'Donnell as handsome but cheating spouse), and has to re-think her life.Look for Brooke Smith as Jenna's resentful sister, she is jealous her sister was the prettier one and leads a "charmed life being lucky" according to her. Again, never judge a person by their externals, the same goes for the lies her son uses to pretend his dad died as a hero during 9/11, and there are some good scenes of their L.I. neighborhood.Overall good film with some stereotypes, nothing deep but good sardonic real-life humor, which I prefer to the usual drivel offered as comedy by Hollywood mainstream. 8/10.

I don't know exactly how to put this into words but what appeared to be a nice drama movie in the beginning turned out to be an average boring movie till the end. Overall the movie presented a psychic storyline with a disturbed girl finding her way out of her husbands death. Coming to the acting, one can say that most of the characters did justice to what they were put through. I am a kind of person who usually don't miss a single scene of movies, even I also had to skip a few parts at the end. Direction was not very good because the movie actually fail to leave some mark in your mind and it is a kind of movie that you won't even remember its name after a week or so.

This was a great film! I saw this at the San Diego Film Festival a couple of weeks ago and it was a happy little surprise. Jenna Fischer did an amazing job, as a matter of fact, EVERY actor in this film was tremendous. The film was very believable, it focused on a young mother who's marriage is falling apart. She is slowly drifting into a hopeless state; being unloved and slightly alcoholic in return. Then her life changes when events unfold. We watch her handle all these problems at once and still we see her emerge as a better person in the end. The film is not as much of a downer as it sounds, and there is plenty humor in it. The best thing about this film is the reality of it, it's very easy to relate to. The relationships are believable as well as the situations and dialog. I enjoyed this film and I highly recommend it. This film and Nowhere Boy were my two favorite films from the festival.