LouHomey From my favorite movies..

CrawlerChunky In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

Portia Hilton Blistering performances.

Anoushka Slater While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

classicsoncall The irony in my summary line above is that Lucy (Sandra Bullock) was the one to find Peter (Peter Gallagher), and not the other way around, and then, as things progress, she winds up finding Peter's brother in a film filled with clever second guessing and imponderable coincidences. The cleverest was the 'one testicle' scenario. I wondered how the script was going to pull off that little conundrum and the screenwriters did it with style. So here's a romantic comedy that works without getting sappy. Sandra Bullock and Bill Pullman affect a low key chemistry in the story that allows them to ride out the controversy of a phony engagement made all too real through a series of misjudgments. You really have to give the screenwriters credit here for making a believable story out of a set of unbelievable circumstances. The only thing that might not work here is the idea that someone who looks like Sandra Bullock wouldn't have eligible guys lined all the way up and down the block from her el-train cubicle to ask her out on a date. That aside, the story comes together in a charming way to make this not only an engaging chick flick, but an entertaining family film as well.

sarahharris-01675 The movie follows Lucy, an offensive stereotype of an autistic woman (which I can only assume was unintentional since I doubt the screenwriter has even met an autistic person at all), who on top of being too pitiful to live is just a horrendous person all around. She always uses his painful shyness as an excuse to just not clear up the misunderstandings (especially the one that kickstarts the plot) and end the movie right then and there. She even goes out of her way to stalk around in the apartment of the guy she's pretending to be engaged to, which only adds credence to my theory that she was written to be a terrible stereotype of an autistic woman and set disability representation back by three decades. All of the other characters (save for Peter, I suppose) are terrible as well. Jack develops feelings for his brother's supposed fiancee without even thinking about how much this might affect him, and the rest of the family pretty much just abandons Peter when they find out that he'd been engaged to a woman who was already married (to be fair, though, I don't think Peter could've known she was married at that time). Yes, this movie is so bad that I actually ended up feeling sorry for Peter, a character who's not supposed to be sympathetic in the slightest.I will give the movie this, though. Lucy and Peter don't get married at the end. Honestly, I think that's for the best since their entire relationship was based on a lie.If you want to watch a good rom-com, please do not watch this offensive tripe. It will make you scream and cry with rage like I did, and just make you question what life is.

mariondowning-427-469344 This movie is your typical chick flick where a poor woman explains why she's marrying a stranger (she doesn't love) by saying at least she'll get a holiday and she won't be alone anymore. That last bit thrown in there because women can't be alone apparently. They need to marry someone even if they're the brother of the person they love. Meanwhile, the single bloke she's marrying is sleeping with a married woman behind her husband's back. Charming. Hard to like any of them really.

lilaamoi Let's make it clear, this is a pure rom-com. But a cleaver, funny and not too sweet one. I watched it by "accident" and because I like Sandra Bullock. It is really nice, well written and with great supporting actors. The main character (Bullock) works in public transport, has no family and is secretly in love with one the customers she sees daily at work. When she saves his life after he fell on the track one day, she goes to the hospital to get some news; she gets to meet the family, which has some hilarious characters, and kind of gets adopted by them while her love interest is in the coma ("while (he) was sleeping") Nothing philosophical. It just makes you feel good, and that is already a lot.