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Some people are jealous because it seems like Katie (Katie Holmes) has
the ideal life, but she's under tremendous pressure. She's struggling to
get through her last weeks of college - she has finals to study for, a
thesis to write, job interviews to prepare for, and abandonment issues
to get over. Not to mention all the men she has to get to fall in love
with her - that's a lot on one person's plate; it's enough to drive a person
crazy.
To top it all off, she's surrounded by one-dimensional cliché characters:
Wade Handler (Benjamin Bratt) - I'm the cop with a drinking problem, living
across the street from the liquor store - I hit something with my car (it
might have been a cat), but I'm a detective and couldn't figure it out.
I've been drinking on the job, so the only case my boss will let me handle
is a missing persons thing that's two years old. Oh yeah, I fall in love
with Katie (because everybody loves Katie).
Embry (Charlie Hunnam) - I'm Katie's old boyfriend that disappeared without a trace two years ago. Some people say I look like Cindy Crawford (blonde locks, pouty lips, huge mole), but I'm the tortured artist suffering for my craft and Katie seems to think I've returned to spy on her.
Samantha (Zooey Deschanel) - I'm the friend who only knows how to make sarcastic, biting remarks and sleep around a lot. I'm not very interesting.
Harrison (Gabriel Mann) - I'm the cute, but nerdy friend who loves Katie and is always there for her, but she's not interested in me. Should I run and hide or get even?
Mousy Julie (Melanie Lynskey) - I'm the spooky librarian girl who's jealous
of Katie, even my name in the credits is cliché. I'm in the story
to confuse people into believing I may be doing something dastardly to
Katie and her boyfriends.
Doctor (Tony Goldwyn) - I'm Katie's psychologist who's more interested in getting in her pants than messing with her mind.
Bob (Mark Feuerstein) - I'm Katie's new boss and I'm next in line to fall in love with her and then leave her.
Abandon all sense of time - 99 minutes can seem like an eternity when you're
forced to sit through codswallop. This is not so much a psychological thriller
as it is a psychological torture-test of endurance.
Abandon all concerns about bad career moves - these people obviously did.
Fred Ward has an excuse (he can always say he didn't see the rest of the
script), but Benjamin Bratt had to know what he was getting into. I guess
being around a "highly energized young cast" (and sucking face
with a pretty young thing) was just too exciting to pass up.
Give those kids from "Dawson's Creek" a hiatus and look what happens. First, James Van Der Beek gave us The Rules Of Attraction and now this - stop them before it happens again.
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