Dominic Chianese Al as Al. Scarlett Johansson Emily as Emily. Michael Storms Sam as Sam. Jason Myers Billy as Billy. Emily Hart Eddy as Eddy. Paul Greco Rene as Rene. Mujibur Rahman Counterman as Counterman. Sirajul Islam Counterman as Counterman.
Eric Schaeffer. Eric Schaeffer story screenplay Tony Spiridakis story. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. Joe and Lucy are roommates and best friends. Lucy, whose love life is embarrassingly dull, convinces Joe, who is infatuated with a neighbor he's never met, that if they don't have stable romances within a month, they must jump off the Brooklyn Bridge.
A comedy for the romantically challenged. Rated R for language and some sexuality. Add content advisory. Did you know Edit. Trivia Emily Hart 's film debut. Goofs Jane's shoes when she is at Joe's art show. Quotes Al : I'm proud of you Joe. User reviews 47 Review. Top review. A sure cure for insomnia. I rented this movie some time ago, thinking it would be great, especially with Sarah Jessica Parker and Ben Stiller.
However, I found the movie very disappointing. It did not keep my attention and I kept waiting for it to "get good". It never did. I ended up falling asleep. Unlike other movies I have fallen asleep on, I did not feel the need to try to watch it again, especially when spending money to rent it.
In fact, I could not wait to get the tape back video store. However, whenever I have trouble sleeping, I do consider purchasing a copy of this movie to help me fall asleep. After reading other comments, I see that some people liked this movie and thought it was clever and smart, so it must have some enjoyable and entertaining value from a view point I am either lacking or just have not applied.
However, it is definitely no Something About Mary, or You Got Mail which are wonderful romantic comedies, yet very different from each other. Details Edit. He's an artist who has, for the last two or three years, been sharing an apartment with a therapist named Lucy Sarah Jessica Parker. Nowthey are both pushing 30, and make a pact: Either they both find true love in 28 days, or they jump off the Brooklyn Bridge. This premise is fairly idiotic, especially since a therapist, should know better. I found myself hoping they would not find love, because the only way for a premise this stupid to redeem itself would be, of course, in their deaths.
Lucy is fairly smart - too smart to be in this movie, for starters. But she talks to Joe on his level. This geek dialogue is supposed to show that the characters are maintaining an ironic distance from conventional social rules.
All that's missing is the irony. Joe is the kind of person who seriously believes this is a pickup line: "I have herpes. But not downstairs. For Lucy, it is an action painter named Bwick Ben Stiller , who seems to have random malfunctions at the level where the speech and movement centers of the mind do their work. For Joe, it is Jane Elle Macpherson , the tall beauty who lives next door and conducts most of her life - undressing, kissing her dates - in front of an open window. Joe has been spying on her and painting her for years, and puts on a gallery show of his work.
Jane comes to the show, is amused and allows Joe to pick her up, even though he has a white ring around his mouth because of unwise use of sunblock at a tanning salon.
Joe cannot believe his good fortune. She is fragrant and friendly, and soon he has her against a wall with her shirt off, and is expressing misgivings about the Mickey Rourke position. Then she spoils it all by revealing she knew he was watching her. Joe leaves in dismay. His dismay is nothing compared to ours. Couldn't he have borne his disappointment at least long enough for her to take off her bra?
I know this is an unworthy and even a sexist sentiment, but is it fair for a movie to bore us for an hour with the arid predicaments of two woefully uninteresting characters, and then take Elle Macpherson's shirt off, and then bail out on scruples? I felt like the rat that spent three days stumbling through a maze, and all it got as a reward was a chlorophyll gumball. Eric Schaeffer not only plays Joe MacGonaughgill, but also wrote and directed this movie. Earlier, he made "My Life's in Turnaround.
He cast Sarah Jessica Parker in this film after meeting her in a cab he was driving. He is obviously a lot better with women than Joe MacGonaughgill.
It is so incredibly hard to get an independent film made that Schaeffer deserves credit simply for the fact that these films exist. He is obviously a smart guy. Why does he play dumb?
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