(2005) A Lot Like Love

A Lot Like 'Like'

People in the first blush of romance can get a little satisfied with themselves (they develop an I’m worth it! glow). That attitude reaches a painful state of insularity in A Lot Like Love. Ashton Kutcher, with his studious dearness, and Amanda Peet, with her shark-grinned hauteur, may not set off sparks, exactly, but they have the chemistry of star-on-the-rise narcissism. They’re a mutual admiration society passing themselves off as lovebirds.

A Lot Like Love - Video Q&A (Ashton Kutcher & Amanda Peet)

A series of casual encounters over a seven-year span leave Ashton Kutcher and Amanda Peet wondering if what they have is love ... or something like it.

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[...] it seems like old times when strangers mate midair in the privy of a plane in "A Lot Like Love" -- a romantic tale with a lot going for it besides an acknowledgment that carnal knowledge hasn't altogether slipped the minds of the younger generation. An unfortunate casting decision, however, comes close to sabotaging a witty script with fresh insights into the trend of young people postponing marriage while waiting for some grand plan of theirs to materialize. Bland and with a small television face (words once used to describe David Caruso, but equally applicable here), Kutcher is incapable of doing the heavy lifting required to be a romantic lead. Peet, who has the looks and magnetism of a Kennedy offspring, makes Kutcher fade into the background, and you're left fantasizing what the movie might have been if Peter Sarsgaard had co-starred. The vagaries of the dot-com world are pretty accurately portrayed through Oliver's entrepreneurial attempt to sell diapers on the Internet. "Love" strains credibility, though, with a multitude of coincidences that hook the pair up again after they have parted ways, such as his wandering by a gallery exhibiting her photos, including a naked one of them snapped years earlier.

A Lot Like Love trailer 2005 Cast: Amanda Peet Ashton Kutcher