A rare Rob Reiner failure, for which I blame Ted Griffin's screenplay - how then did the stellar cast agree to it? I don't know what went wrong for Jennifer Aniston, Mark Ruffalo, Kevin Costner, Shirley MacLaine and Richard Jenkins.
According to Wikipedia, Griffin began directing it, fired cinematographer Ed Lachman, and was himself fired by producer Steven Soderbergh the day after. Reiner then came in and made hurried script and cast changes - not enough.
Jen thinks that her mother had an affair before her marriage and that she might not be her father's child, leading to the film's only joke, where Jen is caught kissing Costner by Ruffalo who says "I hope that's not your father". On paper that doesn't even sound funny.
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