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…because one might argue that Stephen Belber’s directorial debut is just another run-of-the-mill rom-com; ready and willing to join the rest of last year’s valentine’s detritus on the opposite bank of Styx. And in a lot of ways it is. Yet that doesn’t necessarily mean it doesn’t bring anything to the table.
We start things off with Mike (Zahn), a lonely night manager working at a ma-and-pa motel in Arizona. Suddenly he’s graced with the presence of a tightly-wound travelling saleswoman named Sue (Aniston) and it proves to be a game-changer in his humdrum life. After a casual fling in a laundry room and a trip back to home in Maryland, Sue of course assumes things will resume their normal pace. That is until Mike, hopelessly and awkwardly infatuated, follows her.
