I recently watched Life As We Know It, the rather unusual romantic comedy with Katherine Heigl and Josh Duhamel . There were clear challenges with this movie but I thought it was worth watching for two things.
1. A Brave Premise
The premise is that a couple dies (yes, ouch) and leaves their baby to be raised by their two best friends. The two best friends aren’t a couple. They tried dating once but it didn’t work out.
I’m all for trying different things (why I write about green alien heroes and voyeuristic billionaires) and, in a business dominated by sequels and me-toos, this was definitely a different premise.
I also liked that the two best friends didn’t immediately embrace their guardian status. They tried to find someone, anyone else who could do the job.
2. The Hero Is A Real Guy
Often in romantic comedies, the guy is a stereotype. He’s the perfect man or he’s the slob or he’s the always slick lothario. He doesn’t seem real or different or fresh.
Messer, Josh Duhamel’s character, acts like a real guy. He runs around in his underwear (and looks mighty fine doing so). He drinks milk from the carton. He looks at other women before he becomes involved with the heroine. He treats the baby as a small adult, using the same lines on her as he’d use on other women.
He is fresh and different and unpredictable. That made the movie fresh and different and unpredictable also.
Did you watch Life As We Know It? What did you like about this movie?
Sinful Rewards 1
Cynthia Sax
Belinda “Bee” Carter is a good girl; at least, that’s what she tells herself. And a good girl deserves a nice guy—just like the gorgeous and moody billionaire Nicolas Rainer. He is everything she wants in a man.
Or so she thinks, until she takes a look through her telescope and sees a naked, tattooed man on the balcony across the courtyard. Hawke is mysterious, the bad boy she knows will bring only heartbreak. He has been watching her, and that makes him all the more enticing.
But when a mysterious and anonymous text message dares her to do something bad, she must decide if she is really the good girl she has always claimed to be, or if she’s willing to risk everything for her secret fantasy of being watched.
Is her mystery man the reclusive billionaire with a wild side or the darkly dangerous bad boy?
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