Life As We Know It

2010 "A comedy about taking it one step at a time."
6.5| 1h54m| PG-13| en| More Info
Released: 02 October 2010 Released
Producted By: Josephson Entertainment
Country: United States of America
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
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After a disastrous first date for caterer Holly and network sports director Messer, all they have in common is a dislike for each other and their love for their goddaughter Sophie. But when they suddenly become all Sophie has in this world, Holly and Messer must set their differences aside. Juggling careers and social calendars, they'll have to find common ground while living under the same roof.

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Exoticalot People are voting emotionally.
Fairaher The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.
Murphy Howard I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.
Ava-Grace Willis Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.
Kirpianuscus the ambition to propose more than a romantic story is the basic virtue of film. the stories of two people who becomes parents, a couple, a family, has a great potential without be an original subject. and two good looking actors in lead roles represents a good point. Josh Duhamel does a good job in a role who explores the paternity in smart manner , using humor and drama in right doses. sentimental, decent, proposing solutions and reflecting a serious problem of every day reality, it seems be a little different by many other too sweet romantic stories. sure, it has a precise target and the need to respect the last decade rules of genre. but it has all points to not be boring or pathetic. and Katherine Heigl gives her the best.
Some Dude It is a given that all non-documentary movies require some suspension of disbelief. However, they are still required to meet some level of plausibility. This movie doesn't make it.The entire premise of the movie is that two people who can't stand each other would agree to take on the responsibility of raising a kid for parents who never bothered to tell them they were appointed as guardians. This is simply preposterous on too many levels for any rational human to accept. Maybe if this were sold as a fantasy, it might have a chance, but I doubt it would work.I bailed after the first half hour.
SnoopyStyle Holly Berenson (Katherine Heigl) is the owner of an Atlanta bakery. Eric Messer (Josh Duhamel) is a TV sports technician for the Atlanta Hawks. Their best friends Peter and Alison had set them up on a blind date but it went horribly wrong. When their friends die in a car accident, the two bickersons has to raise their baby girl together.It's not a new premise to force kids on single people. It's the go to premise for lots of gags. It's maybe the unoriginality of it all that devalues most of the comedy. It's been done before and by better comedians.Katherine Heigl and Josh Duhamel are reasonable romantic leads but this movie desperately needs a real comedian as one of the leads to do the jokes. It was not funny even before the deaths turned it heavy. As a romance, it worked well enough but as a comedy, it fails utterly.
perkypops Katherine Heigl and Josh Duhamel use on screen chemistry to make this quite original storyline work in a pleasing way, even if at times the film always follows the signposts without ever hinting that it may surprise you. The plot bases itself on what happens if married friends would like you to look after their kid(s) if anything terminal should happen to them both. Enter Sophie whose parents perish. There are actually three Sophies but they only ever appear singularly and we cannot see the joins...The screenplay centres around whether or not Holly (Heigl) and Mess (Duhamel) will get it together sufficiently well to provide for Sophie as her parent's would have wished. Of course Holly and Mess have almost diametrically opposed ideas and ideas on life choices entirely designed on making the other feel inferior. Whilst this is going on Sophie is growing up and not all is as straightforward as planned.One of the most charming aspects of the script is its penchant for discovery, or perhaps a better word would be disclosure. We witness Holly and Mess discovering and disclosing slowly but surely through the film whilst all around them people seem to be sure the "happy" couple will eventually get it right. Perhaps it takes more than Sophie to do that though and that is where the film works really well.The acting is good throughout, and the scenes of Sophie growing up are sometimes a joy. It is perhaps a little too strongly "middle class" in places but it doesn't detract from the enjoyment.I give it seven for achieving what it sets out to do.