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Title: Trite and...
Review: BORING. I was convinced to watch a sweet romantic comedy with my wife, but even she was disappointed by this slow-moving wreckage of a movie. The basic plot facts are that an author named Alex (Luke Wilson) has 30 days to write a novel or his loan sharks will kill him. The said loan sharks have also added some difficulty to his task by burning his computer (insert your "frying the hard drive" joke here) over the stove burner.So...in comes cute and perky Emma (Kate Hudson) as a stenographer to take notes for Luke since he apparently doesn't know how to write with a pencil. The story ends up reflecting Alex's real life, as he falls for Emma but still has feelings for a more glamorous woman.In short, the story moves so slowly I wanted to stick a cattle prod into the TV, and there were so many formulaic and predictable twists, my eyes are still rolled into the back of my head.Unless you are a big fan of either of the main characters, I advise you to keep your distance from this movie.
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