Life as We Know It Page #2

Synopsis: Holly and Eric were set up on a blind date by their friends, Peter and Allison who are married. After Peter and Allison are killed in an accident, they learn that they have been named as the guardians to Peter and Allison's daughter, Sophie. So they move into their house and try their best to honor their friends' wishes. But raising a child puts a crimp on their style and they don't exactly get along.
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director(s): Greg Berlanti
Production: Warner Bros. Pictures
  2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.6
Metacritic:
39
Rotten Tomatoes:
29%
PG-13
Year:
2010
114 min
$53,358,964
Website
3,477 Views


Doggies have pups

Horses have pretty foals

And sheep have lambs

Cows have calves

And l bet you didn't know

That elephants have calves too

Lions and leopards have cubs

Which is the proper thing for them to do

[COOING]

PETER:
Dhe's gonna bIow if you keep

doing that. Dhe's in a puking phase.

MEDDER:

No. she Ioves it.

Dhe Ioves it. don't you. Doph?

You're the onIy girI I'II ever shave for.

You know that?

Dpeaking of. why didn't Liz come?

I thought you were getting serious.

No. we ended that a few weeks ago.

It wasn't working out.

PETER:
What happened?

-I don't know.

I just didn't see us

on that Iong march towards death together.

-Oh. my bad. I thought you Iiked this girI.

-That was you. I just thought she was hot.

Honey. don't forget

to tip the castIe guys.

[TEENAGERD DPEAKING INDIDTINCTLY]

They show up Iate

and made me do the work.

-But. sure. Iet's tip the castIe guys.

TEENAGER:
Grasshopper.

Do I started taking Dophie

to this new famiIy practice.

HOLLY:

Mm-hm.

There's this doctor there. He's so cute.

I may have finaIIy repIaced

my Anderson Cooper crush.

-Anyway. I noticed no ring...

-Dcoot.

...so I started a conversation

with his nurse.

-No.

-I pretended to Iike her naiIs.

-No. We agreed to a moratorium on setups.

-How do you know you won't Iike him?

You have the worst

setup track record ever.

-Like who?

-The shopIifter. AduIt-braces guy.

UnbeIievabIe.

You're stiII hoIding that over me.

I'm not even gonna

get into the Messer DebacIe of '07.

WeII. that was Peter.

I hardIy even knew him then.

You knew he caIIed himseIf Messer.

And you're my best friend.

You can't be Iike those women

who judge me because I don't wear a ring.

I'm not.

In the meantime.

you keep having gorgeous babies...

...and I wiII keep spoiIing them with this.

DeriousIy.

that's better than my wedding cake.

-I made your wedding cake.

-It was a IittIe dry.

[HOLLY DCOFFD]

Don't Iet any fat grown-ups in

whiIe the kids are inside.

[CHUCKLING]

Have you guys been smoking marijuana?

-That's iIIegaI.

-You're stoned.

What are you hoIding? Let me see it.

Come on. you want me to caII the cops?

PIease don't. My dad's a pastor.

[MEDDER CHUCKLED]

AII right. I'm taking this.

Next time. you are gonna be troubIe.

-Now get out of here.

-That's--

-Get out of here.

-Get out of here!

TEENAGER:
I bought that stuff.

-TotaIIy unacceptabIe.

DeIivery kids show up

stoned out of their minds.

-Who needs a deaIer?

-Aren't you respectabIe now?

ReIax. Once a year.

under the right circumstances...

...AIison and I Iike to reIive our youth.

-Once a year?

-Yeah--

-Yeah. right. Once a year.

-AII right. maybe twice a year.

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