Amanda, who lives in Los Angeles, has just broken up with her cheating boyfriend. Iris, who lives in England, is also facing some problems with men, when the love of her life is announcing his engagement… with another woman. It’s just before Christmas and they both desperately want to get away for a while. They find each other on the internet and decide to swap houses for a two week during holiday. Both are enjoying their time without men, but not for long, since love ends up finding them anyway.

I must say, at first I thought it was a bit of a weird combination of actors. Somehow, I find all of them together in a romantic comedy a bit unusual. But, when I was watching the movie it turned out to work very well. It actually gives this movie a nice touch, to see two complete different types of couples. The one with Cameron and Jude is kind of the perfect styled and well-known version. While Kate and Jack are a surpisingly fun to watch couple.

Another nice aspect of this movie was the sense of humour of Jack Black, which sets a new tone to a romantic comedy. It isn’t the slapstick humour as we know it from his other comical movies, but still a different kind of humour then we usually see. It really did created some good scenes.

Since this is already the 3rd movie from Nancy Meyers I discussed, I think it’s clear I am quite a fan of hers. If you liked this movie too, perhaps you should check out ‘What Women Want’ and ‘Something’s Gotta Give’ as well.

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Tom Ripley meets the wealthy father of Dicky Greenleaf. He wants his playboy son to come back from Italy and gives Tom $1,000 for doing so. But when Tom gets there, he falls in love with Dicky and his wife Marge. Actually, he gets obsessed and eventually just wants to become Dicky Greenleaf. And Dicky himself isn’t going to stop him.

As a movie that can be found in the DVD budget bin, this is one of the more underrated mainstream movies of the last decennium in my opinion. Maybe not during its release, making $80 million, but certainly after it. Particularly the performance of Matt Damon, as a twisted psycho copier, is very convincing. He want to become this playboy so bad, he just does everything to get there. I couldn't help myself but be totally drawn into the story.

The romantic Italian scenery and the music add a lot to the atmosphere -- you can check the music in the video above. Everything takes place in all these great but every day places. While other thrillers might choose a dark and gritty set. It makes for a tensional psychodrama, that isn't the easy forgettable type.

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