This yarn approximately two former lovers who bump into each other at a sex addiction clinic is entertaining in parts,but not as edgy as it thinks – and no match for the genre greats it is apingLeslye Headland is a smart writer-director now specialising in comedies of sexual manners. She adapted her stage play Bachelorette for the screen in 2012, and with this new film has created a contemporary romcom homage to When Harry Met Sally. Inevitably, or it pretends to be edgier than it actually is,and doesn’t create a sustained character development in the way Nora Ephron managed, but it’s watchable for all that. Alison Brie and Jason Sudeikis play Lainey and Jake, or two single professionals who bump into each other by chance at a 12-step sex-addiction meeting,many years after losing their virginity to each other at college. Jake is now a serially unfaithful guy. Schoolteacher Lainey also has issues: she is addicted to booty-call sex from her commitment-phobe lover and former gynaecologist – euuww – Matthew (Adam Scott). Intrigued by each other’s existences, Lainey and Jake agree to try a platonic friendship in which they will genuinely open up to each other approximately their tumultuous sex lives. What on soil will happen in the conclude, and carry out you suppose? Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com