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Holly (Katherine Heigl) is an up-and-coming caterer and Messer (Josh Duhamel) is a promising network sports director. After a disastrous first date, all they have is common is their dislike for each other and their love for their goddaughter Sophie. But when they suddenly become all Sophie has in this world, Holly and Messer must set their differences aside. Judging career ambitions and competing social calendars, they’ll have to find common ground while living under the same roof. Josh Lucas, Christina Hendricks, Hayes MacArthur and Jean Smart co-star in this tart and tender romantic comedy directed by Greg Berlanti (TV’s Brothers & Sisters and Everwood).

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I laughed while watching “Life as We Know It”, the newest Kathryn Heigl vehicle. Heigl has a unique sort of movie star look and evokes memories of some of the stars of the 50s and 60s. In fact, “Life” seems like a movie Doris Day might have made. I am not a huge fan of Doris Day’s films.

But after watching this film, I became depressed. “Life” is a forthy, frivolous little confection but it is also a film you will instantly forget. I find it a little sad when people make one film after another, films that do nothing to challenge their skills or showcase their talents.

Holly (Kathryn Heigl) owns a small bakery in Atlanta. Her friends fix her up on a blind date with Messer (Josh Duhamel), an editor of live sports telecasts. They are completely wrong for each other and don’t get along at all. In fact, they instantly hate each other. Their friends, Allison and Peter (Christina Hendricks, TV’s “Mad Men” and Hayes MacArthur) have a baby, Sophie, and name Holly and Messer as the baby’s god-parents. This forces Holly and Messer to spend time with one another at Sophie’s birthday parties (Holly is a baker and brings elaborate cakes) and other family events One night, Holly gets a phone call and learns her two friends were killed in a car accident. She and Messer soon learn they are the designated guardians and reluctantly try to raise Sophie, based on their friend’s last wishes.
In reading this synopsis, you can probably guess just about every “twist and turn”, if such obvious moments can be labeled as such. This is always a problem in my eyes. Yes, the familiar is welcome in some circumstances, but while watching a film or television show, familiarity usually leads to boredom.

There are some funny moments and some funny observations, but they seem too forced, too sitcomy and too few and far between. The film is directed by Greg Berlanti, who comes from television. He is currently one of the producers of the new television series “No Ordinary Family”, which is better than this film. When someone comes from a television background, you hope they will use the opportunity to make a film to push for something different and better, something more challenging. But “Life” plays like a sitcom or dramedy. When Messer is faced with a problem, he is saddled with Sophie when he has an opportunity to direct his first sports broadcast, his solution plays out like something you would see on CBS on Monday night. It is not necessarily something you want to pay $11 or more to experience in a theater.

I have seen a number of Kathryn Heigl’s films and I have always laughed at her performances. Given the fact she and her mother serve as Executive Producer on her films, she is clearly trying to model her career after the comedy stars of yesteryear. She seems to want to be the next Katharine Hepburn or the next Rosalind Russell. Is she as good as either of these classic actresses? No way, but she holds some promise.

What I find disappointing is that her films are so mediocre. This seems to be the result of everyone associated with the films; the studio okaying the film, the writer(s) who provide the predictable ‘madcap” story, the director who can’t make the film something new and interesting. But most importantly, the fault lies with Heigl herself. If, as Executive Producer, she doesn’t push the people working on the project to produce something interesting, who will? I still think she holds promise, I am still waiting for a truly memorable film role, but I won’t be waiting for much longer.

Josh Duhamel is also extremely likable but he also hasn’t delivered on the promise many believe he has shown. A former soap actor (“All My Children”), he then starred on “Las Vegas” leading to a role in a surprisingly good romantic comedy called “Win a Date With Tad Hamilton”. The “Transformers” films follow, one good and one bad. Maybe the third will be the charm. But it is difficult for him to stand out amid all of the cacophony and destruction of these mega-budget films. His last few films have been disappointing. In “Life”, Messer is a mess and he doesn’t realize it. But you know that over the course of the film, he will learn what is important in life and he will become a better person. This doesn’t come as a surprise does it?

Josh Lucas, also once a promising actor who is extremely charismatic, plays the guy Holly is interested in and attracted to. He is completely the opposite of Messer, a successful pediatrician who does everything possible to woo the café owner, he doesn’t stand a chance. What happened to his career? Wow! He is now relegated to playing the guy Kathryn Heigl doesn’t want or end up with?

And when you see one film after another in which people just don’t move forward, that is truly depressing. And forgettable. What was the name of that other Kathryn Heigl film? Kathryn who?

I don’t know about you, but I don’t like to pay $11 or more to become depressed.

A level headed moviemaker would tell it the way it is. In “Life as We Know It”, actors sounded as real as life would bring.

A couple with a newborn baby and a minor babysitter died accidentally in a car accident, while their lucky baby was left the to the minor. Luckily or not, the couple had no one else to care for their baby in case of their death but their two friends. The two friends, who could not make ends meet in their own rights, were suddenly turned to be the only life support for the orphan baby. Each of the two adults has his or her perception of what life should be. The woman expected prestige, good look, and wealth from her future lover to be. The man needed easy going, care free partner. With such conflicting persona, the caring for a strange baby compounded the struggle of the already troubled adults.

With each’s unrealistic expectation, the only remaining option was facing the bitter reality of jealousy, envy, and loneliness.

The transient love affair between the woman and her pediatrician sounded as realistic as it gets. Soon enough, the doctor realized the high price to pay for a confused and troubled woman. With little or no trouble, the doctor bailed out before soiling his own feather.

The orphan is lucky enough to have to two adults caring for him: a mom with drinking problems and unattainable expectation of her dream love, and a dad who lives from one day to the next, on marijuana, casual sex,and whatever spices his moments to get high and lost. With every passing day, the orphan’s only hope for survival is the constant vigilance of the social worker, the neighbors, and the labile mood of the fickle adults.

In its simplest forms, for the baby to be loved, the two caring adults must love each other first and beforehand.

When a couple of friends decided we were going to go see this I was skeptical. I love Katherine Heigl, but the premise of this film seemed just overused, and obvious. When I walked out of the film I had a completely different opinion. Yes the ending was obvious, but how the characters got from point A to point B was not. It was an enjoyable film, that hit on some real human aspects. Definitely worth the time, and money. I will be buying the DVD.

At first I watched it because of the casts. But as the movie flows, I really think it has some depths in it. Not just some other romantic/comedy, this one we can actually relate to (and finally for once no sexual context, well just a little maybe. Which I find it refreshing). How new parents are behaving and adapt with their first child, is sometimes funny to watch but also heartfelt. Overall, this movie has some laughs, tears, and of course love. Can’t wait for the DVD to come out!

Life as We Know It DVD Movies