With vague reminiscences of Truly Madly Deeply, the subject of writer-director Susannah Grant's rom-com is how one copes with the sudden death of a loved one. The slightly plain looking Gray Wheeler (Jennifer Garner) has to come to terms with the loss of her fiancé and finds comfort in the company of his former pals, the food-loving Sam (Kevin Smith), sensible Dennis (Sam Jaeger) and childhood buddy Fritz (Timothy Olyphant).
It's about Gray finding out things about her fiancé which she didn't know - the idea that he had kept things from her, about Gray finding out new things about herself and moving on and whether she'll fall for dependable Dennis or the dashing Fritz and encounters with her dead fiancé's mom played by Fiona Shaw.
It's a reasonably well-made film - no fault there - but you'd have to wonder why it was made (since it really only meanders through its script) and who quite it's supposed to be aimed at. Perhaps writer-director Grant simply wanted it to be seen as a life-affirming film about a young girl who thought her life had been mapped out, only to find it has to suddenly change and how she copes with that which ok yes, is a reasonable idea.
The only leading problem though, is that it's just not that earth-shattering, its fairly predictable and you feel that the characters are merely two-dimensional and lacking any major depth.
This certainly feels like the case, in respect of the friends Gray encounters who all conform to a certain type, and in an age where people are becoming much more aware of the need to be responsible about their food intake, the character Kevin Smith plays, the overweight Sam who constantly thinks of his tummy, seems to be already from a bygone era in our PC '5 daily fruit and veg' world.
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