How Do You Know Page #4

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
1,873 Views


would be inappropriate.

Good luck, George.

Is Bryant there yet?

Yeah, it's George.

Look, I need to speak with him.

Yeah, well,

reach him as soon as you can.

Thank you.

Hi, this is George.

I've left you four messages, all urgent.

You know I underplay, so I don't

understand your failure to call back.

Thank you.

Well? Tell me.

You must have some reaction.

No, I have one.

I'm just not proud of it.

It's just me being analytical.

I was thinking about my work.

Let me explain the thought.

This is for us, I swear it.

We are not well-matched

for this interval in your life.

Not with me against this deadline

and you being investigated.

I don't want our relationship

to become cannon fodder...

...for this apparition

in your working life.

I will be here for you at the end.

You can count on that.

You wanna split up

until I'm problem-free?

Please, I'd appreciate--

You're breaking up with--? Oh, my--

You're breaking up with--?

I'm hitting the pause button.

So that we don't waste

our precious energies on stuff.

No.

No. No.

Nope. No, thank you.

Tonight I'm in

A romantic mood, yeah

Let's take a shower

Shower together

I'll wash your body

You wash mine, yeah

Rub me down

With some hot oils, baby

Yeah

Hello. Hello?

Hello?

- Hi, boss.

- Hi.

- How are you? It's not too late--

- No.

I'm fine. It's fine.

Hold on just a second.

Okay.

Hey. Thanks so much for calling.

I can't sleep. I don't know

what got into me this morning.

I have never taken a swat

at anybody.

Well, I do know. I'm pregnant.

You're preg-- You're pregnant!

Yeah. Secret's out.

You're pregnant!

I had a hunch.

That guy that picks you up

sometimes, Al?

Oh, you noticed Al.

He lights up every time

he sees you.

So good, huh?

He's great. He's just

been out of work lately.

So we've just been

marathon worrying.

So I'm not myself lately.

So when your father--

Oh, don't worry about it.

So did you tell Terry

about what happened to you?

I'd rather not get into that.

She bailed? You should go call...

...another girl. Distract yourself.

Right?

Forward motion.

They can't stop girls

from talking to you.

My God, is that it?

They're directing people...

...not to talk to me?

I had to sign a confidentiality statement

where I'm liable financially if I....

With this new situation--

You know what?

The hell with everything!

So I lose my job.

Wait, honey, I can't. "Honey." Sorry.

My medical would lapse.

I've gotta care for my baby.

Al still hasn't proposed....

You won't lose your job, Annie, okay?

All right? Don't tell me anything.

Sorry, boss.

Thanks a lot.

You have a good night, Annie.

I am just dying for you.

That's a little extreme.

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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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