The Ostroff and Walling families have been neighbours and friends for years. David (Hugh Laurie) and Terry (Oliver Platt) jog together three times a week, and their daughters were friends right through school. This friendship is put to the test, however, when David begins an affair with Terry’s twenty-something daughter Nina (Leighton Meester). Continue reading
After his wife unexpectedly leaves him, Dodge (Steve Carell) finds himself alone in the face of impending doom. As the people of Earth wait out their final days – an asteroid is heading straight for the planet – Dodge becomes friends with his neighbour Penny (Keira Knightley) and the two set off on a road trip to find Dodge’s high school sweetheart. Continue reading
A group of female college students, led by the self assured Violet (Greta Gerwig), set themselves the goal of improving college life for the entire campus. This consists of running the school’s suicide prevention centre and hoping that tap dance and pleasing scents will lead to rehabilitation of even the most depressed students, as well as shaping up the male students into decent (in their eyes) members of society. Continue reading
