Early on in the film Zooey Deschanel falls asleep on a mattress in a store where future love interest, Paul Dano, works as a salesman. Any viewer lucky enough to have dozed off at a similar time would have not missed much, and would still be able to have a good stab at guessing how it all wrapped up when the credits kicked in.
The script, written by first and hopefully only time director Matt Aselton, mistakes eccentricity for character and randomness for humour and contains bizarre and heavy-handed symbolism that bears no relevance to what little plot there actually is. Paul Dano wants to adopt a specifically Chinese baby and Zooey Deschanel doesn't seem to really want anything, apart from possibly to be loved, and both of them dispassionately amble from scene to scene towards these goals, occasionally interrupted by the odd subplot or two to drag the film out to a standard running time of just over 90 minutes.
A depressing and boring waste of both talent and time.
The script, written by first and hopefully only time director Matt Aselton, mistakes eccentricity for character and randomness for humour and contains bizarre and heavy-handed symbolism that bears no relevance to what little plot there actually is. Paul Dano wants to adopt a specifically Chinese baby and Zooey Deschanel doesn't seem to really want anything, apart from possibly to be loved, and both of them dispassionately amble from scene to scene towards these goals, occasionally interrupted by the odd subplot or two to drag the film out to a standard running time of just over 90 minutes.
A depressing and boring waste of both talent and time.