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Life as We Know It

2010

Greg Berlanti

Katherine Heigl, Josh Duhamel, Christina Hendricks, Josh Lucas ...

5.5

10,087

Comedy. Drama. Romance Two single adults become caregivers to an orphaned girl when their mutual best friends die in an accident. Holly Berenson (Katherine Heigl) is an up-and-coming caterer and Eric Messer (Josh Duhamel) is a promising network sports director. After a disastrous blind date, the only thing they have in common is their dislike for each other and their love for their goddaughter, Sophie. But when they suddenly become all Sophie has in the ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Claudia Puig USA Today	"Heigl and Josh Duhamel have an appealing chemistry, but Life as We Know It is tripped up by awkwardly fusing a familiar sitcom scenario with a tragic premise. (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of four)"	NEU
United States	Joe Morgenstern The Wall Street Journal	"The movie will surely find an audience, since it speaks to young people's anxieties about marriage and parenting. But what are two particularly engaging performers doing in a dump of a comedy like this?"	NEG
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"This is crap as we know it, a 113 minute package of romcom suck (...) Rating: ½ (out of four)"	NEG
United States	Stephen Holden The New York Times	"There is not a single deviation from formula"	NEU
United States	Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"What happens in 'Life As We Know It'? You'll never guess in a million years. Never (...) Rating: ★½ (out of four)"	NEG
United States	Brian Lowry Variety	"Life demonstrates quite a lot about the state of this genre as we know it -- and by that unexacting measure, anyway, it's better than most"	POS
United States	Lou Lumenick New York Post	"Basically, this is 'The Taming of the Shrew' with an adorable-baby twist that never occurred to William Shakespeare (...) Rating: ★★ (out of four)"	NEU
United States	Lisa Schwarzbaum Entertainment Weekly	"A comedy as disposable -- and stinky -- as loaded Pampers"	NEG
United States	Kirk Honeycutt The Hollywood Reporter	"Katherine Heigl and Josh Duhamel do make for very attractive leads while bringing plenty of vitality to thinly written roles"	NEU

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