Career-driven single woman Kate Mosley is trying to get ahead in her advertising job and discovers that her boss is more inclined to promote married people. So, in order to impress her boss, she pretends to be engaged to a man she has just met.
Aniston doesn't need dialogue to catch Kate's quicksilver moods. It's the sitcom lines, at the service of a contrived plot, that choke her.
Laramie Movie Scope
March 16, 2003
The main thing that makes it watchable are the performances of Jennifer Aniston, Jay Mohr and Kevin Bacon. The three make an interesting romantic triangle, despite numerous plot problems, such as the story is basically unbelievable.
[Aniston] at her best can recall young Barbra Streisand in her What's Up, Doc? days.
Film Blather
May 22, 2003
The characters are one-dimensional and surprisingly shallow, the film is unpleasantly predictable, and the realism factor here is You've gotta be kidding.
Insubstantial and oversweet, it still refreshes as a midsummer brain cooler.
Juicy Cerebellum
March 04, 2003
Not quite bad enough to call rancid, and that's the best I can say for it.
Shadows on the Wall
July 11, 2004
enjoyable fluff
Time Out
June 24, 2006
[Aniston] has the rare gift of getting you to root for her in the most trying of circumstances, a quality that will stand her in good stead when she progresses to better material.
