How Do You Know

Chick Flick, Comedy
3 stars
Cute movie, better than I expected. Reese Witherspoon and Paul Rudd star as two people who meet on a blind date on the worst day of their lives. Another wrinkle is Witherspoon is already dating Owen Wilson. Jack Nicholson co-stars as Rudd’s father. My complaints are that the film did not really tell you what the characters occupations were. At least I knew from the previews that Wilson was one of the Washington Nationals baseball players, but they don’t tell you this until halfway through the film. Witherspoon plays women’s softball? Baseball? But she gets cut from the team at the beginning of the movie, and now she is out of work. I wasn’t aware there was a professional women’s ball club? Rudd works for some sort of financial company, but even that is left very vague. It’s a cute romance, and since most Chick Flicks suck anyway, this one is better than most this year, since thank God there are no silly pratfalls. Cute Romance.