This slight but humorous romantic comedy was directed by Rob Reiner and stars Luke Wilson as Alex Sheldon and Kate Hudson as Emma Dinsmore.
Alex is a writer with a hit book under his belt, and he's contracted to write his sophomore novel. But he has a problem...actually two problems. He owes money to the 'Cuban mafia' and he has a serious case of writer's block. After a visit by two thugs, he's informed he has just 30 days to finish the book he can't get started.
He hires Emma as a stenographer to take down his spoken lines of the novel. It's rough going at the beginning, because besides being a stenographer, Emma is a tough reviewer, telling Alex that certain of his passages just don't make sense.
Interwoven into the present day, is a film within a film, set in the 1920s of the novel Alex is writing. Alex appears as Adam Shipley who is hired to tutor the two children of the beautiful, but broke, Polina Delacroix (the beautiful Sophie Marceau). Shipley soon falls for the penniless Delacroiz, but is also tempted by her au pair, played by Kate Hudson.
The separate stories collide as Alex completes his novel, he and Emma confront the reality that was hinted at in the novel.
This is a by-the-numbers romcom, but it's light and airy, and isn't bogged down by needless subplots and twists. The film's denouement doesn't come as a shock, but it's satisfying and sweet.
For a film of this nature, the leads must have chemistry, or the whole conceit falls apart. Here, the is just enough to make the film work.
Rated PG-13 for mild sexual content and language
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