Synopsis
On the set of a playwright's new project, a love triangle forms between his wife, her ex-lover, and the call girl-turned-actress cast in the production.
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Cast
- Owen WilsonArnold Albertson
- Imogen PootsIsabella Patterson
- Kathryn HahnDelta Simmons
- Jennifer AnistonJane Claremont
- Will ForteJoshua Fleet
- Rhys IfansSeth Gilbert
- Lucy PunchKandi
- Joanna LumleyVivian Claremont
- Illeana DouglasJudy
- Richard LewisAl Finkelstein
Recommendations
- 80
CineVue
It may be stuck in the past, with its hoary clichés about the call girl with the heart of gold and the incurable romantic, but the whole thing fizzes with such joie de vivre that the anachronisms only add to its overwhelming charm. - 80
The Telegraph
It’s a hysterical screwball fantasia that openly steals from Lubitsch, Hawks, Capra and Sturges and wants to be caught with its fingers in the till. The result is a highly-sexed Jenga-pile of silliness, to which Bogdanovich can’t resist adding block after teetering block. - 75
Slant Magazine
Familiar as its art/life paralleling may be, it's all fueled by a filmmaker with an intimate relationship to his subject matter. - 60
Variety
An enthusiastic but low-fizz romantic farce that gets by principally on the charms of a cast speckled with gifted funnymen (and, more particularly, funnywomen). - 58
The Playlist
There are jokes that land, and every time Kathryn Hahn steps on screen the film threatens to tilt on its axis and point toward a truer north. - 50
Hitfix
It's a film with one foot in the past, and that's not necessarily a criticism, but unless you're actually doing something interesting with your chosen nostalgic framework, it seems like a slightly artificial way to try to induce that Saturday matinee glow. - 50
The Hollywood Reporter
As gratifying as it would be to report that the effortless touch, the livewire rhythms and the sparkling wit remain in evidence, those qualities prevail only intermittently in this strained though mildly enjoyable ensemble comedy. - 48
TheWrap
The ingredients steadfastly refuse to whip up into the froth this film so clearly wants to be.
