Synopsis
After being cut from the USA softball team and feeling a bit past her prime, Lisa finds herself evaluating her life and in the middle of a love triangle, as a corporate guy in crisis competes with her current, baseball-playing beau.
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Cast
- Reese WitherspoonLisa Jorgenson
- Paul RuddGeorge
- Owen WilsonManny
- Jack NicholsonCharles
- Kathryn HahnAnnie
- Molly PriceCoach Sally
- Shelley ConnTerry
- Tony ShalhoubPsychiatrist
- Mark Linn-BakerRon
- Lenny VenitoAl
Recommendations
- 75
Movieline
There are a couple of scenes of pure, sentimental genius, as well as appealingly boggled turns by Rudd and Wilson. - 70
Village Voice
Not that How Do You Know doesn't have its moments of shamelessly entertaining shtick, much of it furnished by Nicholson (watch for a very funny visual gag about his proclivities for much younger women) and by Wilson as Lisa's current squeeze. - 60
Arizona Republic
From its bland title to its fair-to-middlin' story, mediocre is the word that fits How Do You Know perfectly. - 50
New York Magazine (Vulture)
The sad part is that How Do You Know is nowhere near as dumb as it looks. A couple of comic set pieces are inspired-or would be, if Brooks's timing weren't off. - 50
The Hollywood Reporter
A low-impact romantic comedy-drama from James L. Brooks in which the central characters are strangely disconnected from one another as well as from the audience. - 50
Orlando Sentinel
Too cute, too star-studded and entirely too long. - 42
Tampa Bay Times
A terrible title for a not-much-better movie, missing a grammatically correct question mark and most of the point with romantic comedies. - 40
Boxoffice Magazine
Even Reese Witherspoon, whose adorable scrunch-face projects the romantic travails of lovelorn women everywhere, looks unsure of herself.
