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Life as we know it (2010)

Genre: Romance, comedy

Director: Greg Berlanti

Writers: Ian Deitchman, Kristin Rusk Robinson

Stars: Katherine Heigl, Josh Duhamel and Josh Lucas 

My score 3/5

When Holly and Messer meet each other on a blind date for the first time they totally realize that they have a way two different chemistries. And that date is so over even before they hit the restaurant thankfully. But they never ever expect that some day they will be forced to live together and on top of that punishment they will have some one else’s baby to take care of.

That’s pretty much the creative plot in ‘Life as we know it’. I think the plot is great. It’s unique and has one or two good twists. Makes it interesting to follow and gives you several good laughs and tears on the run. This plot pulls it out of the usual romantic comedies and places it on a different platter. 

Holly is a single middle aged woman (played by Katherine Heigl- The Ugly Truth, Knocked up) who is strict to her own rules trying to find love of her life. While not finding much luck in there she concentrates on keeping up her bakery business. Messer (played by Josh Duhamel- Transformers, Romantics) works for a TV station and has his luck placed in blind dates with woman getting attracted to him overnight. But he is not willing to commit himself on a steady relationship which makes him a light minded every day fun loving person. These two characters have differences which sound like the earth to the sky but their best friends thinks otherwise. 

‘Life as we know it’ is a little longer than most of the romantic movies. Maybe for 10-15 minutes but its not boring. There is a good vibe to the whole movie and some good co star performances as well which spice things up. 

Maybe bringing out a kid with whole lot of responsibilities in to a romantic movie sounds like a bad idea. But in this it works just fine and adds a totally different perspective. The kid is sweet and so do the things the couple has to struggle though ultimately proves that its life.

A good watch. No damaged feelings or unhappy ending.

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