Life As We Know It

Movie: Life As We Know It

Cast: Katherine Heigl, Josh Duhamel

Genre: romantic comedy

I saw it on: October 19, 2010

Synopsis: Holly (Heigl) and Eric (Duhamel) cannot stand each other.  Unfortunately, they are the best friends of a married couple with an infant daughter.  Even more unfortunately, the married couple is killed in a car accident.  It seems that in their will, without haven discussed it with them, they assigned custodianship of their now-orphaned daughter to Holly and Eric.

Holly and Eric try to make a go of it – living in the house together with the baby, but things just don’t work out – and least not until the end of the movie..

My two cents: I found the Eric character to be just too unlikeable.  Granted, he was thrown into a horrible situation, but I still feel he acted like way too big of a jerk.  This movie had its moments, but not enough to save it, in my opinion.  If it comes around on HOB or Showtime, you might give it a try – but I would not spend money buying or renting it.