Today’s movie is a
romantic comedy with a scene that happens on November 25. Watch it tonight and
enjoy.
MUST LOVE DOGS
Sarah Nolan is a divorced
forty-year-old preschool teacher. Jake Anderson is a recently divorced boat
builder. Both have friends and family who want them to start dating again. Sarah’s sister Carol creates a profile for her at
perfectmatch.com that includes “must love dogs”. Sarah goes on several
disastrous dates including one where she answers her own father’s ad. Then
Jake’s friend Charlie tells Jake he has set up a date for him with Sarah. They
meet at a park each with a borrowed dog. It is awkward, but Sarah agrees to see
him again. On their next date they start to have sex, but when they realize
neither has protection they go to get it, but by then neither is in the mood.
Later Bob, the father of one of her students calls Sarah, but gets cut off by
Dolly, a friend of Sarah’s father, who needs her help. After dealing with this
Sarah goes to see Bob, but leaves when she discovers he is with June, one of
her co-workers, dropping her phone in her hasty departure. Back at home she
finds Jake has come over and has cared for her drunken brother Michael, who
came to see her to discuss his marital problems. The next day Jake takes Sarah
rowing and they kiss before Jake takes Michael home. Bob shows up, returns her
phone, says he and June aren’t involved, and then kisses Sarah just as Jake
returns. Jake leaves very upset. On November 25, 2004 [1:08:25 to 1:12:49],
Jake visits a strip club on Thanksgiving while Sarah has dinner with all her
family. She calls Bob and they go away for a weekend tryst. When it’s over he
admits he had sex with June and Sarah is just a one-night stand. Sarah feels
humiliated by this. Sarah later sees Jake, but runs away when she realizes he
is on a date with Sherry, a girl his friend Charlie had previously tried to set
him up with. Jake is getting ready to sell his boat to a man who wants to cut
it in half to use a wall decoration when he meets a man, who [unknown to Jake]
is Sarah’s father and in the course of their conversation Jake says a woman
recently broke his heart. Later her father says something that makes Sarah
realize her father had met Jake and that Jake meant her. She races off to find
Jake and with the help of a female scull team catches up to him while he is out
rowing for the last time in his boat. They reconcile and later get married.
A decent romantic comedy.
However, it takes a deux ex machina in the form of a chance encounter to
resolve the plot. Still both Lane and Cusack play their roles with an
earnestness that raises this movie above the usual sappy chick flick
level.
Thanksgiving was on this date in
2004.
Producers - Polly Cohen, Brad
Hall and Ronald G Smith
Screenplay - Claire Cook and Gary
David Goldberg
Director - Gary David
Goldberg
Runtime – 1 hour 38 minutes
Released - July 29, 2005
Starring –
Diane Lane as Sarah Nolan
John Cusack as Jake Anderson
Elizabeth Perkins as Carol Nolan
Christopher Plummer as Bill Nolan
Brad William Henke as Leo
Stockard Channing as Dolly
Copyright by Ivan Walters in 2014
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