A Lot Like Love
Released 20 years ago, A Lot Like Love feels a bit forgotten by time. The romantic comedy starred Ashton Kutcher and Amanda Peet as affable and charming leads whose lives intersect every few years before finally realizing that each belongs with the other. Kutcher is in full shaggy dog mode, especially early as the good-natured but largely clueless dude compelled to see his "five-year plan" to fruition. Peet (perhaps in her most intoxicating on-screen performance) is the more spontaneous, but also emotionally-distant, burned often by love.
After some frisky airplane sex as their meet-cute, the pair will become off-and-on friends and lovers over the years. There's no large script contraption keeping the pair apart other than some bad timing and each focusing on separate lives they pursue which will occasionally bring them back into each other's orbit every few years. A Lot Like Love isn't high drama or laugh out loud comedy, but it's cozy, sweet, and features a pair of characters we're rooting to find each other.
The film is a bit hard to find, but, if you can track it down, the old-school romantic comedy works pretty darn well (featuring a few familiar faces in small supporting roles as well) without the need for wild contrivance or gross-out comedy which, unfortunately, are far too often staples of the genre.
Watch the trailer- Title: A Lot Like Love
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