As Will proceeds to tell Maya the story he unwittingly starts unravel what went wrong with the three greatest loves of his life. Brooks decided some years back that he wished to pen a love story that spanned more than a decade. Like the romantic comedies of yesteryear, he wanted the audience to have a more satisfying investment in the characters and their lives. Cleverly set against the Clinton-era backdrop of the 90's, Definitely, Maybe is a well-scripted, likable comedy. What separates it from your average romantic comedy is the mystery element.
Like young Maya, I found myself trying desperately to put two and two together to try and work out who was her mother. Apart from a somewhat clunky beginning, the film soon settled in with a good pace and some nice laughs. The characters are well developed. I think Brooks has a point in his desire to span the story over a decade; it felt satisfying and added depth.
My only problem was the constant to-ing and fro-ing between present day and the past. It would have been beneficial to have stayed more in the past as this was the far more engaging story. In fact, all of May is very slow on the home market, although this is not surprising for this time of year. I'm not even going to attempt to pad out the list this week. Is there anything in contention for Pick of the Week?
Fortunately, the answer to that is yes. Unfortunately, the screener is late. Normally I really don't like awarding Pick of the Week to a film when the screener is late, but in this case, Haywire is head and shoulders above the rest, so unless the Blu-ray has less than zero special features, it's the best out there.
There were only five new releases to chart this week, but three of them occupied the top three spots. That included 10, B. It was a new release , 10, B.
Nim's Island is using a graduated release schedule and doesn't have a major opening for the rest of the month. On the other hand, it has major openings practically every month right through till the end of summer. Point has the Ad Vantage February 25th, It was a rather predictable weekend with none of the films missing or beating expectations by huge margins. Next up is the U. Jumping to the Top February 20th, The streak is over. For the first time in a while we saw decline on the year-to-year comparison.
Thanks to an opening in the U. In the U. The combination of Valentine's Day and Presidents' Day gave us a de facto five day weekend, and gave the studios a reason to release movies that cater to practically every audience. Spiderwick will have the consolation of winning the 5-day weekend race for 2nd place though, as it had a better day on Thursday, and should win larger audiences on Monday's holiday. The year has been slow for websites with some weeks having no sites at all that were worthy of awards.
This makes it frustrating that week we have two sites that could have taken home the Weekly Website Award; it's either feast or famine. Falling in Love with Presidents' Day February 14th, There are four wide releases this week: a romantic comedy for couples, a fantasy adventure film for families, a dance film for teenage girls, and a sci-fi special effects film for teenage boys. So there really is something for everyone.
Unless you are like me, single, and are sick of having romance thrust at me. I can't even buy some Valentine chocolate and wallow cause I'm still on a diet, so this year I hate Valentine's Day even more than usual. It seems unlikely that February will be able to keep up that pace, but there are still enough releases that most avid moviegoers should find something to get excited about. Granted, this is partially due to the combination of the lead year and February 29th landing on a Friday.
This means we have five weekends in February this year, something that only happens approximately once every 28 years, which explains the number of films. Cast Updates - August 30, August 30th, This week's round of new casting information contains updates for American Gangster, The Informers, Nothing but the Truth, and more! When Will practices his proposal to Emily on April, she is taken aback by Will's heartfelt words, and replies, "Definitely, maybe.
She has spent years looking through copies of Jane Eyre at secondhand stores hoping to find the copy her father gave her, but she buys any copy she finds that has inscription. They suddenly kiss, but Will backs away and leaves. Emily comes back to New York where she confesses, just after Will proposes, that she slept with his roommate. She did it on purpose to break up with Will, saying that she is "letting him go" because she doesn't share his rather lofty aspirations.
After Clinton is elected, Will opens a campaigning business with most of his work colleagues, which enjoys a good amount of success. Will first meets Summer when he gives her the package, a diary that she wrote when she was a teenager which, among other things, tells of a brief affair with Emily. He finds she is going out with a famous writer who is old enough to be her father.
However, the writer breaks up with Summer and Will starts a relationship with her. Meanwhile, April quits her job and goes to travel around the world. Will plans to propose to Summer when April comes back to tell him she loves him. However, she sees Will's intentions and reluctantly congratulates him instead. Summer writes a derogatory article about one of Will's clients, which causes the end of her relationship with Will. As a result of the article, Will loses his business and his dream of a political career goes down the drain.
April calls after a long while and finds that Will is unemployed and unhappy. She throws a birthday party for him where he is reunited with his old colleagues. In a drunken rant, Will confesses his romantic feelings for April, but in the process ends up having a fight with her, questioning why she works in a used book store and telling her to "go to life rehab. Will goes to April's apartment to give her the book, but he decides against it when he meets her live-in boyfriend Kevin.
Emily re-enters Will's life when she moves to New York City, and turns out to be Maya's mother and Will's ex-wife, as Maya correctly guesses.
Will explains to Maya that his story had a happy ending, which was Maya.
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