How Do You Know ** (2010, Reese Witherspoon, Owen Wilson, Paul Rudd, Jack Nicholson) – Classic Movie Review 4609

Reese Witherspoon flops as over-the-hill star softball player Lisa (she’s 30) taking stock of her life after being dumped from the team and fretting over which of her two men she should choose.

The choice is her free-spirited current squeeze, wacky baseball-player Matty (Owen Wilson) or scholarly businessman George (Paul Rudd), the financial wheeler-dealer working for a film bossed by his father, Charles (Jack Nicholson).

It is disappointing that this great cast and super-talented writer-director James L Brooks can’t come up with some much better, funnier and more sparkling than this flat comedy.

Though there are some smiles, it leaves the famous foursome looking like amateurs much of the time.

Also in the cast are Mark Linn-Baker, Lenny Venito, Molly Price and Tony Shalhoub.

By 2016, it is still the most recent movie of triple Oscar-winner Jack Nicholson, who is 80 on 22 April 2017. Nicholson and Brooks made As Good As It Gets (1997) together.

In America it was rated PG-13 for sexual content and some strong language after an appeal and a re-edit, with a UK 12A.

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