![]() But it is mercifully brief (only a couple of minutes). This is unnecessary, misleading and inappropriate. Just when it seems that Harrisons life is. Jenny quickly takes on the responsibility of pairing up Harrison with the beautiful Holly, bringing them together with her wit and charm. Then one day, an ex-girlfriend shows up with her six-year-old daughter, Jenny, and asks him to babysit. The movie begins inappropriately with a scene from the mystery novel the man is trying to write. Harrison is a struggling novelist who is as good at attracting women as he is at getting his work published. His courtroom appearance even strains credibility: everyone knows to be decorous in a court appearance. This hurts the movie and may account for why this good movie is going off the market so soon. He is whiney throughout, even after his success. ![]() The character/casting of the man, the central character, is regrettable. All look much, much better that their pictures on the DVD cover (but then, isn't that true for almost all DVD covers?). The girlfriend is not only pretty but appealing. The little girl is delightful and very appealing. Then, the mother returns.įortunately, the moviemaker did not make the casting mistakes so often made in family movies recently. But the biggest surprise of all comes when he discovers that the little girl is his daughter. He comes to love the little girl and she him and both dread the day when the mother comes back. At first awkward and at a loss, he is gradually warmed by the precocious little girl, who wrangles an introduction to a woman he's had his eye on, and gets him to tell her a bedtime story which she secretly records and sends to a publisher. A writer with no focus in his work, becomes the unwilling babysitter of a precocious little girl who turns his life around.A writer with no focus in his. She's now a successful, busy lawyer who wants him to babysit her six-year-old daughter for two weeks. "A struggling writer gets a surprise visit from an ex-girlfriend he hasn't seen for six years.
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