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Depressing view of love and marriage
Giving this movie three stars may be overrating it a bit. It is pretty interesting but the conclusions are deadly. We are left with the moral that a young man has to give up his dreams, give up on love, and settle for someone he rates a seven and a half, and that is what it means to grow up and be a man.

One character falls for a 13 year old girl, but ends up giving her up and returning to his lukewarm buddy, who he is definitely not in love with. The 13 year old girl is a darling, played by Natalie Portman. She is the star of this movie as far as I'm concerned. Some 13 year old girls are very advanced for their age. She is the only interesting girl in the entire movie.

Another character, an absolute moron, has a girlfriend who has been waiting years for him to propose, but instead he dreams of supermodels and undervalues the girl he has.

Another guy is having an affair with his married ex-sweetheart but has a different girl as his girlfriend, one who is in love with him.

In all three cases, the guys end up with the girls they aren't wild about, and give up on their dreams. I suppose there is something very realistic in all that. Doesn't that happen to a lot of us? Still, it's a downer to see. You get the impression that all these people would be better off dead. The guys will never be happy settling for a life that doesn't really interest them, and the girls will eventually get bored and start cheating, because they aren't loved, and so what if they were, they'd still get bored and start cheating.

There are no happy couples in this movie, and the portrait it paints of American couples is a depressing one.

How did I miss this movie?
I rented this on Tuesday just by chance. Saw that Matt Dillon, Tim Sutton, and Natalie Portman were in it. By some odd chance I had never heard of this or anything. Watched it when I got home and came to the conclusion that this movie is amazing. It has a great ensemble and amazing acting. I'm sure that people have said this plenty of times before me, but the relationship between Sutton and Portman's characters is really good. It's really taboo thinking about a late twenties guy and a thirteen year old girl having some weird relationship, but it works. As a whole, this movie is amazing. Definately worth checking out. I'm just bummed it took me 10 years to finally see this movie.

Fantastic Movie
This is a wonderful movie. Mr. Bernabo, in his review was wrong about a few details. Firstly, this movie takes place in upstate New York, not Mass. Secondly, the reunion is in January, not February. However, this move IS about real people and I like that it doesn't have that "happy Hollywood ending" thing. It is one of my all time favs. Enjoy.

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