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Romantic comedy: Will Hayes, a 30-something Manhattan dad is in the midst of a divorce when his 10 year old daughter, Maya, starts to question him about his life before marriage. Maya wants to know absolutely everything about how her parents met and fell in love. Will's story begins in 1992, as a young, starry-eyed aspiring politician who moves to New York from Wisconsin in order to work on the Clinton campaign. For Maya, Will relives his past as a idealistic young man learning the ins and outs of big city politics, and recounts the history of his romantic relationships with three very different women. On the campaign, Will's best buddy is Russell McCormack. They not only have similar political aspirations, they share the same type of girl problems, too. Will hopelessly attempts a "PG" version of his story for his daughter ad changes the names so Maya has to guess who he finally married. Is her mother Will's college sweetheart, the dependable girl next-door Emily? Is she his longtime ... Written by
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Taglines:
Three relationships. Three disasters. One last chance.
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Rated PG-13 for sexual content, including some frank dialogue, language and smoking
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Release Date:
14 February 2008 (USA)
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Also Known As:
Definitivamente, quizás
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Box Office
Opening Weekend:
£698,041
(UK)
(8 February 2008)
Gross:
$31,973,840
(USA)
(4 April 2008)
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Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1
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Trivia
Many of the bar scenes were filmed in the upper west-side bar Jake's Dilemma, 81st and Amsterdam.
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Goofs
When Will goes to visit Summer, Hampton opens the door with his glasses hanging partly under his chin. He adjusts it correctly and then invites Will in. When they're inside the apartment, Hampton's glasses is crooked and under the chin again.
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Quotes
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Will accidentally staples his finger]
Will Hayes:
Jesus Murphy!
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to a random girl beside him]
Will Hayes:
What am I doing here? Move over! Another foot, go! Over, over, over! I wrote three speeches for Congressman Sweeney. How's high school?
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Soundtracks
I've Got a Crush on You
(1930)
Music by
George Gershwin
Lyrics by
Ira Gershwin
Performed by
Rachel Weisz
Orchestrated and Produced by
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When I first saw the trailer for Definitely, Maybe, it looked like an alright film that was probably just your average Valentine's Day love fest movie. But I got to see it for free, if the price is right, why not? So I watched it and actually I have to say that I was pleasantly surprised. Ryan Renolds, I love the guy in comedies, I haven't seen him in drama, so I was a little skeptical, but after seeing Definitely, Maybe, he pulled in a good performance that surprised me. The only thing I have to say I was a little disappointed in was Abigail Breslin, her performance in Little Miss Sunshine was wonderful and heart warming, Definitely, Maybe didn't bring in her best performance, who knows? It could've been the script or director, but she pulls a decent enough performance to where the movie works and puts a different twist on the average romantic comedy.
Will Hayes has it all, a great paying job, a beautiful daughter, Maya, and a nice home, but unfortunately he is getting divorced. Maya comes over and wonders how he and her mom met. Will keeps saying no, but after tons of begging, he finally decides to go ahead and tell her. But he puts a little twist, since he went through a few women before her mom came along, he tells her the whole story, but through three women, Maya has to solve the love story mystery and find out who her mother is.
Definitely, Maybe was different than the average romantic comedy and that's what I liked about it, it seemed also like it was just more real and not what women should have expectations about. It goes through the serious up's and down's of a relationship, the on and off's as well. The cast did a good job of pulling the film together and making the film very decent. I would recommend Definitely, Maybe, it's worth the watch and was a pleasant movie to see.
7/10