Who's in It: Piper Perabo, Lena Headey, Matthew Goode, Celia Imrie, Anthony Head
The Basics: Piper Perabo is married to really nice Matthew Goode, who adores her, but then this knockout of a lesbian looks at her funny and casts a homo trance over her, and that's when Piper realizes that not only does ridiculous stuff like Actual True Love at First Sight really exist but that she is now 100 percent a lesbian, too. So, you know, it's pretty much a coming-out documentary.
What's the Deal? I can't watch movies like this and cheer on the protagonists because I'm always too busy feeling sorry for the characters who get jilted and left behind. And it's for no other reason than that the newly-in-love people discover, in the dead-and-still-beaten-horse dialogue of a Woody Allen movie, that "the heart wants what it wants." Just like that. Sorry, it's been nice knowing you. You'll bounce back.
Keepin' It Real; OK, Scratch That: This is one of those maddening "Ain't love crazy?" comedies seemingly based in the real world but in which people still make huge, life-changing decisions without thinking or having conversations about them. That would distract the audience from cutesy Big Romantic Gestures that fill the screen but insult their intelligence.
Best Kid Actor Name of 2006 Nominee: Boo Jackson. What a great name that is. And best of all, she steals every scene she's in without lifting a finger.
Movies Make the People Come Together: Perabo and Headey are creating an impressive body of work together. First it was in last year's The Cave, which was about big monsters in an underwater cave that eat hot young scientists. They played two of the hot young scientists. Now this. Next year, they're remaking Rain Man. And if they're not, they should be.
Why Not Watch a Good Gay-Themed Movie That Also Uses the Song "Happy Together" in Its Title and as Theme Music? You should, you know. And it's called, yes, Happy Together, from incredible Hong Kong director Wong Kar Wai.