Saturday, October 9, 2010

Life As We Know It **

A mildly amusing, if totally predictable, romantic comedy, with two attractive stars. Katherine Heigl and Josh Duhamel headline as two single friends of friends whose sudden demise gives them joint custody of the surviving baby. Heigl and Duhamel do have good chemistry on screen, and Duhamel is surprisingly loose and totally charming as the TV sports director matched with Heigl's driven chef and small business owner. There's not much remarkable about the picture, although it's nice to see a movie set in Atlanta that's not by Tyler Perry, even if this movie is as lily white as Perry's are not. The title seems to refer to the change a baby brings, as in life as we know it - is over.

Rated PG-13. 114 minutes. Greg Berlanti - Director, Ian Deitchman - Writer, Kristin Rusk Robinson - Writer, Paul Brooks - Producer, Barry Josephson - Producer, Andrew Dunn - Cinematographer, Blake Neely - Composer, Maher Ahmad - Production Designer, Jim Page - Editor. Distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures.

Principal actors: Katherine Heigl, Josh Duhamel, Josh Lucas, Christina Hendricks.

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