The film is inspired by the plot of The Graduate. If only this was half as good as that classic. The premise is that the author of the novel, The Graduate based his book on real people who lived in 1960s Pasadena. A bride who ran away with this young graduate three days before her wedding and the guy had also slept with her mother, the original Mrs Robinson.
Sarah (Jennifer Aniston) is engaged to be married to Jeff (Mark Ruffalo) who attends her sister's wedding, hears about this rumour and she realises that life might had imitated art. Her late mother may have had an affair with Beau Burroughs (Kevin Costner) several days before her wedding. Sarah wonders if Burroughs could be her real father and that she also slept with her grandmother (Shirley Maclaine.)
Sarah heads of to find Beau Burroughs who is a dot com millionaire and it looks like she could be the third generation in her family to fall for his charms.
As romantic comedy it fails on both counts. There were moments in this film I watched in utter embarrassment that this drivel was being passed on to me as entertainment from a director of the calibre of Rob Reiner.
There is no chemistry of a spark of romance between Sarah and Jeff, you can see it when they attempt to have sex in an aeroplane bathroom (which is kind of difficult at the time when this movie was made with increased aeroplane security in the USA, believe me I tried it in that era!)
Sarah's father (Richard Jenkins) makes jokes about Pasadena and has silly games like holding one's breath while driving through a tunnel. Making a family quirky does not make them funny.
The script was misconceived and left their actors flailing about with what they had. Costner, Jenkins and Mena Suvari were wasted. Ruffalo was just ill at ease. Maclaine could had played her role in her sleep as the glamorous grandmother.
Sarah (Jennifer Aniston) is engaged to be married to Jeff (Mark Ruffalo) who attends her sister's wedding, hears about this rumour and she realises that life might had imitated art. Her late mother may have had an affair with Beau Burroughs (Kevin Costner) several days before her wedding. Sarah wonders if Burroughs could be her real father and that she also slept with her grandmother (Shirley Maclaine.)
Sarah heads of to find Beau Burroughs who is a dot com millionaire and it looks like she could be the third generation in her family to fall for his charms.
As romantic comedy it fails on both counts. There were moments in this film I watched in utter embarrassment that this drivel was being passed on to me as entertainment from a director of the calibre of Rob Reiner.
There is no chemistry of a spark of romance between Sarah and Jeff, you can see it when they attempt to have sex in an aeroplane bathroom (which is kind of difficult at the time when this movie was made with increased aeroplane security in the USA, believe me I tried it in that era!)
Sarah's father (Richard Jenkins) makes jokes about Pasadena and has silly games like holding one's breath while driving through a tunnel. Making a family quirky does not make them funny.
The script was misconceived and left their actors flailing about with what they had. Costner, Jenkins and Mena Suvari were wasted. Ruffalo was just ill at ease. Maclaine could had played her role in her sleep as the glamorous grandmother.