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How Do You Know

How Do You Know

2010
Romance, Comedy
2h 1m
Feeling a bit past her prime at 27, former athlete Lisa Jorgenson finds herself in the middle of a love triangle, as a corporate guy in crisis competes with Lisa's current, baseball-playing beau. (imdb)
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How Do You Know

2010
Romance, Comedy
2h 1m
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Rated 21 Mar 2011
40
27th
If not for the good cast, it was a movie that would pass unnoticed. A waste of talent. The characters and even the story, are poorly developed.
Rated 28 Jul 2011
53
9th
I walked in on this just and bit into it, and after seeing four big names say to my friend, "why haven't I heard of this?" And with a shrug, we barreled on toward what most assuredly should have been a respectable waste of an hour and a half. Upon completion, the scales were removed from my eyes, I realized no one's heard of it because it really sucks, and after looking it up found that its loss of thirty million in the box office reflected that. Simply put, follow the lead and don't watch this.
Rated 03 Jan 2011
61
17th
All I can say is, it was better than I was expecting; Which is to say, it has heart...
Rated 01 May 2011
73
77th
The most underrated film of 2010, apparently. In most films of this genre, the director is a bored god who pulls the strings and frogmarches his subjects to their destinies, but Brooks is more the benevolent therapist and How Do You Know is roomier than the narrow path of the typical.
Rated 23 Apr 2011
33
44th
A good idea, but not so well delivered. Owen Wilson was great and Jack Nicholson was awesome as well. The plot was slow and poorly presented but it was not bad over all.
Rated 16 Dec 2010
20
41st
"Another romantic comedy triangle from James L. Brooks, with a scandalized executive coming between paired athletes--but neither the dialogue nor plot supply an answer (or a question mark) to the title." - Bill Weber
Rated 29 May 2011
61
20th
Not-bad romantic comedy done in by an over-stuffed screenplay full of multiple characters and story strands that never quite come together. Witherspoon and especially Wilson are quite wonderful, but Rudd is too dull and one-dimensional and clashes for lead role with Witherspoon. Inconsistent characterisation of Nicholson's character (is he merely a scoundrel or truly evil, and what is the meaning of his final appearance) also doesn't help matters. A shame given the considerable talent involved.
Rated 16 Dec 2010
1
0th
How Do You Know forges a difficult exploration of its characters' weaknesses and uncertainties. But its deepening drama becomes wishy-washy.
Rated 10 Mar 2011
40
9th
A movie that you probably dont want to remember... How do you know.. by seeing the movie :). Owen Wilson's performance was surprising.
Rated 30 Nov 2012
60
44th
Brooks has given us the rare contemporary rom-com that's by turns (if intermittently) thoughtful and funny, and that doesn't feel focus-grouped, cynical, misogynist, or mean. It seems ungenerous not to cut such a generous movie a break.
Rated 07 Jan 2011
10
6th
Reese Witherspoon is so god awful, the movie becomes hard to watch after 12 minutes. It has a run-time of nearly two hours even though it feels like four, which is probably the worst critique a film can have. I love how it didn't even gross 1/3 of its $120 million budget. Overall a shitty theater experience where you watch unattractive bitches drink Guinness and complain how terrible their lives are.
Rated 12 Oct 2015
60
20th
I don't really know what to say about this. It has a lot of irritating elements, especially early on (so many overlit one-shots, so much self-conscious smiling). But it had kind of won me over by the third act. Well, maybe not won me over, exactly. I think I just got used to having it around. It is kind of amiable and charming. I don't know.
Rated 10 Jan 2011
47
13th
47.000
Rated 12 Mar 2011
1
16th
What's not wrong with this film? Everything from the script to the directing, to the acting and editing is all done from bad to mediocre. Brooks really has lost his touch with this one and probably should just retire, or get his act together. Ignore this one. Really.
Rated 17 Sep 2018
0
0th
First movie I've actually been unable to watch all the way through in a very long time. To think this came from the director of such amazing and lifelike films as Terms of Endearment and Broadcast News goes to show how out of touch someone can become in Hollywood. Actors try but can't access anything that feels even remotely real or even tangentially interesting in the first hour so I bowed out.
Rated 04 Aug 2020
42
8th
Didn't finish this one. There's not more than the slightest chuckle in the first 25 minutes, which is weird considering you have a talented cast and a competent director.
Rated 28 Jan 2021
50
66th
#20-10#, rw4, popcorn, gp-fav, rewatch(3) }**{ #11#, popcorn, story, cast
Rated 13 Nov 2012
20
8th
Points for Reese Witherspoon, Paul Rudd and Kathryn Hahn with enjoyable performances. Jack Nicholson was not stellar, and Owen Wilson was obnoxious. A woman athlete is cut from the team and attempts to find solace in her relationship with a male baseball player. But he is self absorbed and insensitive. She meets another guy, burdened with problems, but it takes her a while to see they are right for each other. Predictable ending. Mostly good music. Poor plot.
Rated 02 Jan 2011
70
48th
Went in thinking it was a romance comedy, but feels that there are more to it.
Rated 07 Mar 2011
72
59th
not a romantic-comedy maybe..but it has a under story about a way of self-actualization through love,belonging and all the life stuff..
Rated 14 Feb 2011
60
14th
This is an airplane movie. Just entertaining, evenly paced, interesting and funny enough to keep you watching, but not so much so that you'll really remember seeing it or care to admit to. See also "New in Town" and "Everyone's Fine" Note: I did not see this on an airplane.
Rated 31 Mar 2011
64
14th
I recently caught John Cusack on Inside the Actor's Studio. He was talking about how he didn't understand a thing James L. Brooks was telling him about his character in Say Anything... because Brooks was an old man trying to identify a young man. I don't think Brooks has lost his stuff necessarily, but he somehow thought this screenplay and these characters were entertainment. I didn't hate it. I just don't like it. The only entertainment comes from Jack, who has fun here when he can.
Rated 08 Sep 2013
32
23rd
Typical rom-com slosh with perhaps a slightly above average cast.
Rated 01 Apr 2011
35
20th
Bland. A polished, boring world where even characters with collapsing lives seem overly comfortable, with problems that seem happenstance and irrelevant, conflicts arising from sheer shallowness and short-sightedness and a love triangle as banal as the choice between vanilla and french vanilla ice cream. The least I can say is that there is nothing offensive, nothing risked and nothing memorable.
Rated 04 Apr 2011
59
29th
James L. Brooks fails to return to his better years as a filmmaker and reminds us all of 'Spanglish' once more. However, 'How Do You Know' also has better moments than most romantic-comedy fare. Scenes actually feel written with some thought and intelligence behind them. The characters simply never become real, and neither do most of the situations. The actors are great, but our lead character is so lost even by the film's resolution that it's hard to root for her even as we root for the film.
Rated 08 Dec 2011
77
46th
I wanted to like it a lot more, it had a few wonderful moments, but more mediocre ones.
Rated 31 Dec 2010
46
22nd
Entertaining at times; not really all that good or all that bad. It was a good escape from everyday life. Even if it did drag on...and on.... This movie was just too long for what it brought to the audience.
Rated 12 Jul 2012
30
17th
How Do You Know is an awful romantic comedy filled with unlikable characters, unfunny situations, and a general waste of talent. Each major member of the cast has been in great movies in the past, but here they're wasted by a director who has also previously been worthy of accolades. There isn't much of a plot, the characters are all one dimensional and don't progress as the film does, and it's not at all funny, save for one or two scenes with Jack Nicholson that serve as the only highlights.
Rated 03 Jun 2013
40
19th
I know by watching this movie. That's how I know it sucks.
Rated 29 Aug 2012
46
19th
Wasn't horrible and to bad Owen Wilson couldn't have been a Pittsburgh Pirate.
Rated 22 Oct 2013
46
7th
46.000
Rated 13 Nov 2011
50
8th
Weird movie. Not bad...but weird. Kind of didn't make sense...I didn't feel the sparks between the three main characters. I love Reese Witherspoon, which was probably the redeeming factor in this movie. Paul Rudd's character was a little bipolar. He came off as crazy. Not sure I'd watch it again, other that to try to make some sense of it...
Rated 19 Aug 2011
4
14th
Bad characters, all annoying, they are all examples of annoying /bad character traits.
Rated 26 Jul 2015
93
67th
1
Rated 30 Apr 2011
10
52nd
Not the show stoppers that such a cast should be delivering. Weak, script, just didn't have the guts neccessary to make a great film; none of the characters draw you in; and none of the situations are all the charming, amusing, or entertaining.
Rated 15 Oct 2018
38
14th
What a waste of talent. The entire mood of the film feels off and the writing is poor.
Rated 02 Dec 2018
5
22nd
Watching his good ones, one walks away with the feeling that Brooks' real talent is very carefully hiding -through technique, handling of actors, comedic puns, and calculated melodrama- that he's not very deep or invested even though he sells in the market of insightful adult relationship dramedies. Here he seems to have lost whatever touch or talent he had, and the emperor stands naked. Still, this is not nearly as bad as everybody says.
Rated 22 Aug 2020
62
18th
Countless examples of low effort attempts at jokes particularly towards the beginning make this a pretty bad movie. But if you withhold judgement or alternately you make fun of how bad it is, it sticks to the formula and will develop a little bit of cheesy charm by the end.
Rated 01 Jan 2021
65
32nd
Decent somewhat unusual romcom that follows multiple perspectives and where the only villain/antagonist is Jack Nicholson as the too-despicable father of Paul Rudd's character. This movie would have been better if Owen Wilson had his own storyline like the other two principles do. Also all three leads are too similar in that they all seem a bit pathologically optimistic and prone to self-help speak for me to like them.

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