Life As We Know It
(M), 105 minutes, 3/5
There generally aren't too many surprises to be had when you have Katherine Heigl starring in a movie.
The new queen of the rom-com has made an art of playing the pretty girl looking for love in all the wrong places.
With a touch
of Knocked Up (2007) about it, Life As We Know It pits Holly Berenson (Heigl) up against Eric Messer (Josh Duhamel) in the unlikely love match.
Holly and Eric know each other but only because they have to.
Peter and Alison Novack are a couple with a young child - Sophie.
With Eric as Peter's best mate and Holly filling the same role for Alison, there is no escaping each other.
But Holly and Eric are quite firm in their desire to spend as little time as possible with each other - these opposites certainly don't attract.
When tragedy strikes and Peter and Alison are killed in a motor accident, Holly and Eric are asked to step up and take guardianship of Sophie as her godparents.
This is foreign territory for this unlikely couple.
They must put aside their personal feelings toward each other and make Sophie their top priority.
As their love for Sophie grows, so does their respect and affection for each other.
Holly and Eric must work out whether they can put their old lives, loves and work aside and become a family.
On the surface, Life As We Know It is rather lightweight. But dig a little deeper and there is a fun movie and entertaining story to enjoy.
