I love this movie. I've been wanting to see it again for a while now, so I just took some time to sit back and enjoy it. I know it's not a movie for everyone (and I heard more than one person gripe about the ending when it came out, but I will still, after numerous subsequent viewings, defend to the death that it is the best and most appropriate finish) but it certainly is one I recommend you give a chance.
All three main actors: Dennis Quaid, Topher Grace, and Scarlett Johansson, do a great job in their roles, but it is really the syncopation between Quaid and Grace that absolutely makes the movie. Grace's hangdog-mixed-with-optimism plays perfectly off Quaid's breadwinner-father-husband-father-to-be and the scenes between them (especially pre- and post-Grace/Johansson relationship) are especially satisfying.
Other than the ending, another complaint I often heard about the movie back when it came out (and I was working at the video store where people loved to complain) was that they thought was a Topher/ScarJo romcom. Um... Dennis Quaid kind of has top billing, and the box cover even tells you that the "main conflict" is that Topher Grace, though largely unqualified, becomes Quaid's boss, and then Grace falls for his daughter. You know, tangentially. (Or might that be secantally?) So, if you were "misled" that's because you did no research, or complete misconstrued what the movie was about, to your detriment. Unless, of course, you were pleasantly surprised, which I hope is more the case.
Score: 9.5/10
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