![]() They name Holly and Eric, Sophie’s god- parents. They both hate each other but kind of tolerate co-existing for Peter and Alison who get married and have a beautiful daughter Sophie. They first meet each other when their best friends, Peter and Alison set them up on a blind date that goes devastatingly wrong. Holly Berenson is the owner of a small bakery in Atlanta and Eric Messer is a young and upcoming television technical sports director for the Atlanta Hawks. Starring - Katherine Heigl as Holly Berenson and Josh Duhamel as Eric Messer And if that isn’t reason enough for you, well watch the movie anyway. The movie is sweet, romantic and as if the beautiful Katherine Heigl wasn’t enticing enough, it features the cutest baby. It just means you’re not alone.”Įntailing the story of two young people who find love and a reason for their love in the face of tragedy, ‘Life As We Know It’ is a feel-good movie for the times you find your feelings hitting the ground. But the film never quite dodges the sneaking suspicion that much of its drama comes from a deeply manipulative plot device: a very adorable orphan child who teaches these bickering grownups a thing or two about maturity.“Just because you need help doesn’t mean you’ve failed. Heigl, for once, goes beyond the ice-queen shtick of her usual onscreen persona to elicit real empathy, and Duhamel plays a likeable clod who comes to love parenting. Unfortunately, Life As We Know It plays out in all the predictable ways, complete with red-herring love interests and dramatic third-act speeches. Unlike many mainstream offerings, there’s a genuine emotional undercurrent to the film that gives it great poignancy. ![]() In the film’s best stretches, Berlanti dramatises the enormity of this new responsibility, illustrating that beyond the pressure of raising a child Holly and Messer must contend with their own sense of inadequacy in comparison to the memory of Sophie’s wonderful, loving parents. But the film is, in actuality, largely a melodrama as Holly and Messer find themselves caring for a baby while grieving over their friends’ tragic death. Its high-concept premise of two mismatched individuals who must work together and ultimately fall in love will be familiar to anyone who watches a steady diet of Hollywood romantic comedies. But when the friends are killed in an automobile accident, Holly and Messer discover that their will stipulates that they become Sophie’s joint legal guardians.ĭirected by television producer Greg Berlanti, Life As We Know It is an odd cross-pollination of genres. Hyper-organised bakery owner Holly (Heigl) and playboy TV sports director Messer (Duhamel) can’t stand one another, but they adore Sophie, the one-year-old daughter of their best friends. ![]() release mixes laughs and tears, and its peppy advertising, which plays up the film’s Three Men And A Baby premise, should hook viewers uninterested in the horror movies and highbrow awards fare elsewhere in the marketplace. Opening in the US and UK on October 8, Life As We Know It will cater to supporters of Heigl’s recent star turns in 27 Dresses and The Ugly Truth. There’s a genuine emotional undercurrent to the film that gives it great poignancy. This tale of two very different single people who must care for their best friends’ baby daughter will work for audiences looking for uncomplicated tear-jerking, but the more discriminating may become frustrated by the film’s penchant for turning a tonally unpredictable story into a fairly conventional feel-good flick. Despite a warm chemistry between stars Katherine Heigl and Josh Duhamel, Life As We Know It is an involving but ultimately mediocre mixture of domestic melodrama and opposites-attract romantic comedy. ![]()
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