Kate (Famke Janssen) has a problem. She has a column due and the one that she's written isn't appropriate. What's worse is that her boss is about to fire her. So she starts talking into one of those little tape records about what has gone wrong with her life to get her where she is now and why she has no experience to write about relationships. It turns out that the problems started on the playground when she was 9.
This is probably the best bit of the movie and it goes downhill from there. We jump forward from there (but not all the way forward to the absolute present) to where she met her big love - Adam (Jon Favreau). Adam was different and swept her off her feet, right out of the arms of someone else who she didn't like at all and things just took off. But that doesn't mean that they went well.
After a year or so, Kate discovered she was pregnant, and things did go well - until she lost the baby. Then everything spiraled out of control and she and Adam couldn't decide what they wanted. So they split up and started dating other people. Then they wanted each other again but they couldn't make it work. Finally they end up back together again.
Frankly, between the flashes of the past and the present and what was happening to who it was a bit clumsy. A lot of movies would do better to just tell the story outright rather than try and jump all over the place and build tension because in doing so they end up all over the place without a decent story of any kind. This is one of those cases. A plausible romantic comedy turns into something else entirely.
Rated: NC. While not rated, this movie contains plenty of adult dialogue, so you'll want to make sure that you watch it after the kids are in bed.
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