I have enjoyed Will Smith for quite a while. He’s had a few flubs, such as Wild, Wild West, but generally even in those, he can be entertaining to watch.
This time around, Smith plays Alex “Hitch” Hitchens, matchmaker extraordinaire. He doesn’t advertise, and won’t even talk to you if your plan is just to get the girl for one night. For Hitch, it’s all about the long ball.
Dan Foreman (Dennis Quaid) should be living the good life. He’s working as the head of ad sales for a major sports magazine and getting ready to coast into the best years of his life.
Unfortunately, the magazine has just become the part of a larger company in a corporate takeover, and he’s been “demoted” (which has to be better than being “downsized”) in the shakeup. To make matters worse, his new boss Carter Duryea (Topher Grace) is half his age and thinks he knows everything. He is about to find out that he doesn’t.
One day as Dan (Jude Law) is walking down the streets of London, he watches as a young lady is struck (Natalie Portman) by a taxi as she crosses the street. Being the nice guy that he is – or at least wants her to perceive, he helps her to the hospital to get stitched up, where she tells him that her name is Alice. They walk together as Dan heads to work, and she finds out about his girlfriend, but Dan seems interested anyway.
Fast-forward a bit (in real life, not in the movie), and Dan is having his picture taken by Anna (Julia Roberts) for a book cover. The subject of his novel is none other than Alice, who has replaced his former girlfriend, and it turns out that about a year has elapsed. This will be a recurring theme. As their photo shoot winds up, Dan tells Anna that she is beautiful and he simply must have her. Unfortunately, Alice overhears the conversation. Woops.
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