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November 08, 2009

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ColeSmithey.comScott McGhee and David Siegel (the filmmaking duo behind "Bee Season") follow two equally problematic parallel stories about a young New York couple.

Pregnant Kate (Lynn Collins) and her loyal boyfriend Bobby (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) flirt with extracting a large ransom from an unknown gangster (think "Burn After Reading") while their more domestic dopplegangers visit Kate's family for a contemplative Fourth of July fiesta.

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Neither story is engaging enough to work on its own, and there isn't any resonance between them if there was.

For all of the earnest effort that Collins and Gordon-Levitt exert for characters that they created improvised dialogue for, you're always aware of the narrative artifice surrounding them.

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Two half-baked stories don't add up to a whole movie no matter how much dialogue the actors wrote.

Not Rated. 104 mins.

2 Stars

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