"Well, the bad days make the good days seem better, so don't worry."
How Do You Know is one of those puzzling rom-coms that is set on Planet Coincidence and is populated by characters who neither speak nor behave in any way remotely human. Veteran writer/director James L. Brooks returns with an unjustifiably expensive film that is over-long, over-written and generally unconvincing. Jack Nicholson makes surprisingly little impact, and Owen Wilson does pretty much what he always does. It is only the casting of Reese Witherspoon and Paul Rudd, two reliable and accomplished actors, that makes this film watchable, as they both miraculously wring out some credible and nicely-detailed performance moments from their remarkably silly characters.
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