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Title: Kate Hudson is the cute all-American girl-next door type
Review: albeit with an attitude. She's stuck in a way too predictible formula comedy. All that is left is the particulars. A novelist, Alex is under fire, literally to produce a novel quickly to get the money to pay off loan sharks who want to kill him. He hires steno, Emma & she moves almost literally into his life as he begins to crank out a novel; with her critical comments along the way. It is soon obvious that the novel is paralleling their going relationship. Yes, of course, they are falling in love.The movie flashes between the present day & the 1920's Gatsby-like setting of the novel. The problem is they are all too aware that this is happening. That they know that this is causes the movie to lose much of the charm it could have had if the two stories proceeded with Emma & Alex blithely ignorant of what was happening. Art imitates life. Or is it life imitates art? I could squeeze 21/2 stars.
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