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Synopsis: A sharp-witted suburban wife, Terry Wolfmeyer, is left to raise her four headstrong daughters when her husband unexpectedly disappears. Things get even more hectic when she falls for her neighbor Denny, a once-great baseball star turned radio d.j. This leaves her daughters out on a limb. They are forced to juggle their mom's romantic dilemmas as well as their own.
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Director(s): Mike Binder
Production: New Line Cinema
  5 wins & 13 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.9
Metacritic:
63
Rotten Tomatoes:
74%
R
Year:
2005
118 min
$18,742,061
Website
386 Views


What kind of a dick-head

runs away

with his secretary?

That is lame.

Take a right,

make a left

at pathetic.

I think he's coming

back home.

Maybe not soon,

but... I do.

I think we should

call him.

And say what?

"Hey Dad, how's your

new life going so far?

I got an A

in interpretive dance."

He doesn't care about you, Emily.

Get real.

He lost his job, Hadley.

- What?

- Your father was about to be laid off.

He was told

a few months ago.

He was devastated.

He didn't want you girls to know it.

Okay? I think he

flipped out or something.

I read this article

on the internet.

Apparently, it's common.

They lose their jobs,

and they go nuts.

What do you want

from me?

It's the best

that I can come up with.

I don't want

anything from you.

Well, don't take it out on me, Hadley.

You aren't gonna have to be here.

You aren't gonna know

how empty this house is gonna be.

Well, if it makes you feel

any better, I hate him too.

Oh, does that mean

you hate me?

You are such a mental.

I have to go, okay?

All right.

I'll see you later,

okay?

Terry.

Hey.

Listen to my show

today, okay?

I'll mention you.

I'm gonna bring you up

as a drinking buddy

- I watched the invasion with.

- I don't want you to do that, Denny.

I know, but...

you don't have a choice.

Yeah, I do. I don't want to be

mentioned on the radio.

You don't want

to be mentioned?

- # She cried more, more, more! #

- No.

#With a rebel yell #

- # She cried more, more, more! #

- Okay.

Oh God.

Hey, come on!

Slow down!

- There's children playing here!

- Sorry, sorry, sorry!

- There's children playing here!

- Sorry!

And now, once again,

Detroit's own legendary

Denny Davies.

Okay, it's the Denny Davies show.

And if you're

a regular listener,

and you've just tuned in, you know

that you haven't missed much.

And you know that's the beauty

of the show, right, Shep?

You can always just

jump right in here with us

- because...

- Because nothing ever happens.

Nothing ever

happens, exactly

Now what were we talking about

just before the commercial?

Oh yeah.

The invasion, right?

- See?

- Right?

- You still do have your memory.

- Yeah.

I know what people are saying.

Were you watching TV?

As a matter of fact,

I was watching it

with my drinking buddy

the very sweet,

the very tall

and absolutely sexy

Terry Ann Wolfmeyer.

But you...

but you know what?

- What?

- She doesn't want me to talk about her,

so I'm not gonna do it.

I'm not gonna talk about her.

Not gonna talk

about who?

- Terry Ann Wolfmeyer.

- Terry Ann Wolfmeyer.

I get it. We're not even mentioning

Terry Ann Wolfmeyer's name.

- Nope.

- Is that the game that you're playing?

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Mike Binder

Mike Binder (born June 2, 1958) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, and actor. more…

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