When In Rome
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(PG) 91 minutes
When Beth (Kristen Bell) goes looking for love, she finds frogs.
When she throws her heart and soul into a relationship, she always gets burned.
While her career is going in a great direction, her love life is going south fast.
She can't quite figure
out why she can't meet the right blokes and when her younger sister meets, falls in love and marries her Italian suitor in two weeks, Beth thinks love is going to pass her by forever .
She simply doesn't know what is wrong with her.
In Rome for her sister's wedding, Beth thinks her luck is changing when she hits it off with best man Nick (Josh Duhamel) but a secret kiss with a strange woman puts paid to that.
In despair, Beth wades into a fountain of love and innocently retrieves the coins of five men.
These men have flung the coins in the fountain in search of love.
She thinks she can save them from the misery she is enduring by taking their coins and saving them from finding love.
As only happens in Hollywood, Beth's actions magically turn the affections of these men towards her and she finds herself having to fight off the attentions of four strangers and Nick.
And strange they certainly are. There's an ageing mega-rich sausage salesman (Danny DeVito), a troubled artist (Will Arnett), a young magician (Jon Heder) and a conceited male model (Dax Shepard). And don't miss Anjelica Huston popping up as Beth's tyrannical boss.
Even when Beth returns to her New York home, her suitors follow her and turn up at the worst of times as she seeks to prepare for the biggest night of her career.
It is these times that provide some hilarious moments as these love-stricken men do almost anything to win over their fair maiden. But it is Nick who Beth sees a future with however she needs to work out if he is also under the spell or if his feelings are real.
