How Do You Know (2010)
After being cut from the USA softball team and feeling a bit past her prime, Lisa finds herself evaluating her life and in the middle of a love triangle, as a corporate guy in crisis competes with her current, baseball-playing beau.
- James L. Brooks
- Aldric La'Auli Porter
- Maggie Murphy
- Jessica Franks
- Brett Robinson
- Alison C. Rosa
- Sherry Gallarneau
- James L. Brooks
Rating: 5.3/10 by 971 users
Alternative Title:
¿Cómo sabes si...? - ES
Откуда вы знаете? - RU
Como Você Sabe? - BR
Como Saber si es Amor - SV
Prvý alebo druhý - CZ
Ako vieš? - SK
에브리씽 유브 갓 - KR
Woher weisst du, dass es Liebe ist - CH
Country:
United States of America
Language:
English
Runtime: 02 hour 01 minutes
Budget: $120,000,000
Revenue: $48,668,907
Plot Keyword: love triangle, baseball, aftercreditsstinger
Boring watch, won't watch again, and can't recommend. Paul Rudd (especially) and Jack Nicholson are actors I would use as a barometer for movie quality, and even Reese Witherspoon (even though I'm not a big fan) usually is in quality movies, but this is just such a dud. It's the rom com equivalent to watching paint dry. Everything about it draws enormous attention to what you would expect to be happening and not doing it. Trust me, I understand that subversion of expectation is comedy, but there is a rate of diminishing returns on the repetition and duration of the joke, and if you play with that line, then you're writing a comedy for comedy writers because they are the only ones that are going to look at the movie / life as a punchline, and I don't think that is what they were going for. There is an underlying theme of patience and adaptability: life will even out even in the roughest of situations, but the movie just sort of stops without even an epilogue, they're just literally and suddenly not there anymore. I think there is a lot to get out of the movie, if you're strong enough to reach for it: a man who has everything but doesn't give you what you need isn't as good a man who has almost nothing and wants to give you what you need. It's a counter argument to "Nice guys finish last". Please don't waste your time, go watch anything else Paul Rudd has been in except for the one where he buys a French villa.
