12.21.07
How to Leave Your Lover
Wondering how to leave your lover?
Make them watch How to Leave Your Lover, then they’ll leave you!
Get it? Cause this movie sucks.
Owen (Paul Schneider) is a single writer in Los Angeles (omg, I’m sure the writer/director wasn’t drawing from his own experiences) who finally decides to “break up with his life” and leave L.A. But in line at the airport, he runs into Val (Jennifer “Jessica Stein” Westfeldt) and they have a drink and he decides that she might be the one. So naturally, he stays in L.A. and he dates her but does that thing that movie characters do when they decide to change their lives and is honest with her (sort of, when it’s convenient to the plot) and meets her parents on the first date and various other ‘quirky’ things. I turned it off about halfway through because I was getting really annoyed.
The 2 possible endings (is it a spoiler if I just guess correctly?) are:
- Things with Val turn out great, happily ever after
- Things with Val don’t work out, but it’s OK because Owen finally hooks up with his best friend Allison (Poppy Montgomery), happily ever after
Also, Tori Spelling plays a lesbian and it is like the grossest thing ever.