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Synopsis: Star softball player, Lisa, has just been cut from the national team; Scholarly business man, George, has just been indicted from his father's company. With everything that they know in their lives taken from them, Lisa and George attempt to find romance. Lisa's potential boyfriend, Matty, however, is as clueless and perpetually single as they come, and George's girlfriend just dumped him. A chance hook-up through mutual friends, Lisa and George may be able to form a friendship, or more, that can help them climb out of the piles of lemons that life has handed to them.
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director(s): James L. Brooks
Production: Columbia Pictures
  2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
5.4
Metacritic:
46
Rotten Tomatoes:
32%
PG-13
Year:
2010
121 min
$30,212,620
Website
1,869 Views


wear that dress home.

- What?

- Come here.

What size? Small or extra small?

Wait, what is that?

- What?

- That. Behind you.

That is repulsive. The stack.

- No.

- No?

No, no. No, it's me being classy.

It's me being a good host.

No. No. No.

I feel like I'm on an assembly line

that's just spitting out girls.

That's just negative. That's like....

Though if you think about it,

and I never did till now...

...we're all on kind of an assembly line,

just going through each other's lives.

Until one day,

you close the factory down...

...take one product home and use it

monogamously for the rest of your life.

- My mistake, Matty. Forget it.

- No, I'm not--

It's not a mistake.

I'm just saying that--

If I'd given you one and hid the rest,

I'd be a great guy?

- But because I was open with you--

- I said, forget it!

Matty, what am I doing?

I caught myself.

Don't judge others

till you check yourself.

You're lucky if it's your fault,

you can correct the situation.

I'm nervous over something

that's going on with me.

I'm with an attractive guy

you'd be an idiot...

...to mistake for anything more

than just a fun friendship.

And, yes, amazing sex.

Instead, I give that guy a hard time

for just being who he is.

Totally my fault.

I'm sorry.

Please forgive me.

- Are you apologizing?

- Yeah.

If you're really apologizing,

you may be my dream girl.

I heard footsteps and I'm like:

"Okay, somebody nuts is coming back

to be more nuts."

And now, an apology?

You may be my dream girl.

Yeah.

They said you'd be in here.

How bad is this?

The Justice Department is investigating

the company for security fraud.

- Based on what? Why are they--?

- They don't have to say.

- Based on what? Why are they--?

- They don't have to say.

They've subpoenaed

everything from abroad.

- You didn't tell your father? The worst--

- Of course I told him.

- No.

- Yes.

He's gonna meet us in my office

right now.

- Your concern is...?

- I don't have one.

Well, we better go.

I agree.

- Morning.

- Morning, Dad.

We need the company lawyer for

whatever this is? What's going on?

- You want a kiss too?

- Not today.

- You haven't read this yet?

- Just once.

They are investigating us...

...for misstatement of receivables

to inflate earnings.

- Stock fraud.

- What do you know about it?

Nothing. But I'm responsible.

What, are you being noble?

I'm telling you what

recent legislation says.

If it's true and I didn't know,

I should have.

Can you ask your assistant to come in?

We have to respond immediately.

Annie, could you please come on in?

And bring your laptop.

All these items mentioned...

...you must have checked whether we

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James L. Brooks

James Lawrence "Jim" Brooks is an American director, producer and screenwriter. Growing up in North Bergen, New Jersey, Brooks endured a fractured family life and passed the time by reading and writing. more…

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