Storyline
Life for a single mom in Los Angeles takes an unexpected turn when she allows three young guys to move in with her.
Cast: Nat Wolff -
Teddy
Reese Witherspoon -
Alice Kinney
Lake Bell -
Zoey
Michael Sheen -
Austen
Pico Alexander -
Harry
Candice Bergen -
Lillian Stewart
Lola Flanery -
Isabel
Reid Scott -
Justin Miller
Eden Grace Redfield -
Rosie
Dolly Wells -
Josh Stamberg -
Ryan
Jon Rudnitsky -
George
P.J. Byrne -
Paul
Robb Derringer -
Jen Kirkman -
Trivia:
Producer Nancy Meyers, mother of writer/director Hallie Meyers-Sheyer, originally offered Witherspoon the lead in The Intern, which she turned down. Meyers played a big role in getting this script in Witherspoon's hands. See more »
User Review
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Let me preface this by say that I love movies, I'm not a movie snob by
any stretch. I particularly love Rom-Coms and have been disappointed
that they have fallen out of favor over the last decade or so. Some of
my favorite movies are cheesy Rom-Coms; Never Been Kissed, 13 Going on
30, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, The Holiday and even Ghost of
Girlfriends Past.
I saw this film as a pre-screener ahead of it's official release.
Sometimes they pre-screen movies because they are great and want them
to get buzz, sometimes they are really bad, and hope the audience falls
in love before the critics get their hands on it. This is bad, really
bad. Not just in story, but in acting, directing, editing score; you
name it, it's bad. I love Reese Witherspoon and never thought I would
see her phone in a performance but here it is. She doesn't so much as
act as rolls her eyes and makes goofy faces; it's embarrassing to
watch. There are so many cast members here that usually can do no wrong
in my book; Candice Bergen, Lake Bell, Michael Sheen. They are given
nothing to work with and Michael Sheen's character is nothing more than
a cartoon. Nat Wolff is up and coming; I've seen him in a few things
and think he's generally pretty good. Thanks to the very poor editing
you can see him laughing in two scenes where he's clearly not supposed
to be.
The whole film is just embarrassingly bad. You know the movie Mother's
Day, how "bad" that is? It looks like an Oscar winning film compared to
this. I looked up the movie after the screening, curious how it went so
wrong. It's written and directed by Nancy Myer's daughter. Her daughter
seems to have no credentials to be able to sell and direct a movie so
my thought is that there were a lot of favors and strings pulled and it
shows. I wouldn't even recommend watching this movie if you were sick
in bed and it happened to pop up on TV.
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